The New Mithraeum Database

This second relief depicting a phallus from Tiddis, Algeria, has been positioned alongside its counterpart atop pillars that greet visitors to the Mithras shrine.

The phallus from Tiddis, Algeria, has been represented as a cock.

The Mithraeum was housed in a cave. The vault is almost dome-shaped and in front of the cave there is enough space for a possible adjacent temple.

This altar found in Benifaió, València, was erected by a slave called Lucanus.

The Roman remains of Benifaió, or Benifayó in Spanish, are located on the outskirts of the city. Of particular interest is a rustic villa inhabited between the 1st and 4th centuries according to the numismatic and ceramic remains found.

Stone altar fragment from Danilo Gornje near Šibenik, Dalmatia, bearing a dedication to Deo invicto by Comitius.

Marble altar from Hrastnik near Trojane, ancient Atrans in Pannonia Superior, dedicated to Deo invicto Mithrae by Eutyches, contrascrip of the conductores portorii publici, slave of the Iulii, acting as vicarius of Benignus, vilicus of the statio Atrantiana…

This marble slab bears an inception be the Pater Proficentius to whom Mithras has suggested to build and devote a temple.

This inscription reveals the names of 36 cultori of Sentinum, one of whom bears the title of pater leonum.

Danilo occupied an important position in the hinterland of the central Dalmatian coast near Šibenik.

This small cippus to Zeus, Helios and Serapis includes Mithras as one of the main gods, although some authors argue that it could be the name of the donor.

Epigraphic testimony catalogued in the Année Épigraphique and Lugli’s Fontes for ancient Rome.

White marble statuette of a cross-legged Cautes with an upraised torch and a cock at his feet, with traces of blue and red paint, found during regularisation works in the Tiber and now in the Museo Nazionale delle Terme.

Tiddis was a Roman city that depended on Cirta and a bishopric as Tiddi, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see. It was located on the territory of the current commune of Bni Hamden in the Constantine Province of eastern Algeria.

This marble relief bears an inscription by Marcus Modius Agatho, who dedicated several monuments to Mithras on the Caelian Hill in Rome.

White marble statue of Mithras killing the sacred bull preserved in the Museo Nacional Romano.

Small triangular slab bearing a Latin inscription referring to Sol Invictus and to a sacred cave, probably dating to the 4th century AD.

Excavated in 1919, the Mithraeum near the Roman Gate was installed in the 3rd century within a larger building complex.

This Mithraic temple, also known as the Mithraeum of the Olympii, dates to the 3rd century and was rediscovered in 15th-century Rome, but it has not been preserved.

This monument is the only one still available from the disappeared Mithraeum in Piazza S. Silvestro in Capite.