The New Mithraeum Database

Rottenburg am Neckar; until 10 July 1964 only Rottenburg; Swabian: Raodaburg is a medium-sized town in the administrative district of Tübingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Rottenburg is the seat of a Roman Catholic bishop, being the official centr

Verulamium was a town in Roman Britain.

Burham is a village and civil parish in the borough of Tonbridge and Malling in Kent, England.

Camboglanna was a Roman fort.

Samsat, formerly Samosata is a small town in the Adıyaman Province of Turkey, situated on the upper Euphrates river.

Visentium was the Latin name of one of the minor Etruscan cities.

Hamadan is a city in western Iran.

In his first book, Fahim Ennouhi sheds light on the cult of Mithras in Roman Africa. A marginal and elitist phenomenon, confined to restricted circles and largely absent from local religious dynamics, yet revealing.

This monument has been identified from ’Memorie di varie antichità trovate in diversi luoghi della città di Roma’, a book by Flaminio Vacca of 1594.

I am a visitor tour guide up on Housesteads Fort on hadrians Wall

Gnostic amulet found in the ancient Agora of Athens, depicting Abraxas on one side and a Mithraic inscription on the other.

Passage from Plutarch’s Life of Pompey, recounting the rise, power, and insolence of the Cilician pirates before Pompey’s campaign to suppress them.

Two extracts from De abstinentia ab esu animalium by Porphyry on sacrifices and the importance of abstinence from animal food among Persian Magi.

Two excerpts from the ’Life of Commodus’ in Lampridius’ Historia Augusta, dating from the 4th century CE.

Pseudo-Plutarch, De fluviis. Goodwin, Ed. Plutarch. Plutarch’s Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press of John Wilson and son.

Pseudo-Plutarch, De fluviis. Goodwin, Ed. Plutarch. Plutarch’s Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press of John Wilson and son.

The site of Ay-Todor in Crimea revealed a Roman camp, a temple with votive offerings, and a Mithraeum.

Figures in procession, each representing a different grade of Mithraic initiation, labeled with their respective titles.

This lamp, depicting a man slicing his victim into pieces with a sword, was believed to be associated with the Cult of Mithras.

Procession of Leones carrying animals, bread, a krater, and other objects in preparation for a feast.