The New Mithraeum Database

Monumentum

Altar of Faustinus from Gimmeldingen

Corax Materninius Faustinus dedicated other monuments found in the same Mithraeum in Gimmeldingen.

TNMM444 – CIMRM 1319

In h(onorem) d(omus) d(ivinae) / deo / invihto (sic) / Materninius / Fau[s]tinus carx (sic) / in suo posuit / (libens) l(aetus) m(erito).

Monumentum

Tauroctony medallion of Transylvania

This medallion belongs to a specific category of rounded pieces found in other provinces of the Roman world.

TNMM430 – CIMRM 2187

Monumentum

Colonne with inscription by workers of the pig market

The inscription included the names of the brotherhood, which are now lost.

TNMM619

S[oli] i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / et sodalicio eius / actores de foro suario / quorum nomina / [[sequuntur]]…

Monumentum

Mercury of Groß-Gerau

The statue was dedicated to Mercury Quillenius, an epithet used to refer to a Celtic god or the Greek Kulúvios.

TNMM618

Mercurio / Quillenio A(ulus) / Ibliomarius / Placidus nego(otiator) / cas(tello) Mat(tiacorum) lanius / v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) l(aetus) m(erito).

Monumentum

Felsgeburt des Mithras

Mithras Petrogenitus, born from the rock, from the Mithraeum of Carnuntum III.

TNMM237 – CIMRM 1687

Monumentum

Lion-headed figure of Mérida

The lion-headed figure, Aion, from Mérida, wears oriental knickers fastened at the waist by a cinch strap.

TNMM241 – CIMRM 776

Monumentum

Mithras rock-born from Housesteads

A naked Mithra emerges from the cosmic egg surrounded by the zodiac, as always carrying a torch and a dagger.

TNMM200 – CIMRM 860

Monumentum

Incriptions to the gods of East and West

These two inscriptions by a certain Titus Martialius Candidus are dedicated to Cautes and Cautopates.

TNMM496 – CIMRM 1214

D(eo) Or(ienti) / T(itus) Mar/tial(i)us / Candi/dus v(otum) s(olvit) / l(ibens) l(aetus) m(erito). D(eo) Oc(cidenti) / [T(itus)] Mar/[ti]al(i)us / Candi/dus v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) l(aetus) m(eri…

Monumentum

Bronze plaque of Sisak

This small bronze tabula ansata was dedicated to Mithras by two brothers, probably not related by blood.

TNMM397 – CIMRM 1477

D(eo) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / Aurelius Heraclides / et Agathopus fra/tres v(otum) s(olverunt) l(ibentes) m(erito).

Monumentum

Naked figure from Mérida

This sculpture may be a naked dadophorus, probably Cautopates.

TNMM243 – CIMRM 775

Notitia

The gay origins of the Hindi world for friend

The Sanskrit and Hindi word for friend is “Mitra”. It is also the Nepali word for it. The Sinhala word is ‘mitura’. The word’s etymology has surprising, stark and vivid homosexual connotations.

Monumentum

Tabula ansata of Lucius from Bremenium

This inscription commemorates the building of a mithraeum in Bremenium with fellow worshippers of Mithras.

TNMM566 – CIMRM 876

Deo invicto [[et]] Soli soc(io) / sacrum. Pro salute et / incolumitate imp(eratoris) Caes(aris) / M(arci) Aureli Antonini pii felic(is) / aug(usti) L(ucius) Caecilius Optatus / trib(unus) coh(ortis) I…

Mithraeum

Mitreo dels Munts

The Mithraeum of Els Munts, near Tarragona, is one of the largest known to date.

TNMM31

Monumentum

Incensiary vessel of Dieburg

The vessel to burn incense from the Mithraeum of Dieburg is similar to those found in other Roman cities of Germany.

TNMM409 – CIMRM 1269

Monumentum

Inscripton of Justus from Caerleon

This oolite base, dedicated to the invincible Mithras, was found in the baths of the Villa de Caerleon, Walles.

TNMM741 – CIMRM 809

[Deo in]victo / [Mi]thrae / ...s Iustus / c[(enturio) leg]ionis II aug(ustae) / [l(ibens)] m(erito) f(ecit).

Monumentum

Altar of Castlesteads

Horsley thought that, like some other inscriptions in the Naworth Collection, this altar also had come from Birdoswald.

TNMM720 – CIMRM 872

De(o) Soli / (Invi)cto / M(ith)r(a)e M(ar)/cus Liciniu(s) / Ripanus praef(ectus) v(otum) s(olvit).

Monumentum

Inscription of Aurelius Iustinianus from Ptuj

This inscription belongs to the 4th mithraeum found in the modern town of Ptuj.

TNMM644 – CIMRM 1614

Templum / dei{i} Sol(is) Inv(icti) Mit(hrae) / Aure[l(ius)] Iusti/nianus v(ir) p(erfectissimus) / dux labefa/ctatum re/stituit.

Syndexios

Lucius Caecilius Optatus

Tribune of the first cohort of Vardulli, he erected a mithraeum with his fellows in Brementium.

Mithraeum

Mithraeum of Colchester

One of the rooms in a sustantive masonry building in Hollytrees Meadow was considered to be a Mithreum, a theory that has now been discarded.

TNMM73 – CIMRM 829

Monumentum

Cautes Borcovicus

The head this statue of Cautes from Carrawburgh has been lost.

TNMM130 – CIMRM 854