The New Mithraeum Database

Clarissimo, defensor civitatis, magister and Pater patrum.

Marcellinus was an antistes who reached the grade of Leo in Rome.

Murius Victor was an aedile of Civitas Taunensium who, in fulfilment of a vow, built an altar to Mithras.

He commissioned the main cult relief found in the Mithraeum of Circo Massimo.

A slave of a certain Flavius Baeticus, Quintio dedicated an altar to the health of a companion.

Aelius Maximus identifies himself as a soldier of the Legio V Macedonica on a relief found in ancient Potaissa.

Latin writer, Platonic philosopher and rhetorician.

Optio who erected several altars to Mithras in the Mithraeum of Sárkeszi.

Veteran of the legion XIII and member of the Fabia tribe.

Roman emperor of humble origin who reunited the Empire and repelled the pressure of barbarian invasions and internal revolts.

Slave who, for the salvation of his master, built a spelaeum in Aquileia, complete with its furnishings.

Freedman and administrator of the country estate of a certain Flavius Macedo in Moesia.

Freedman from Greek-speaking origin who dedicated an altar to the invincible Mythra.

Hector erected an altar to Mithras in Emerita Augusta by means of a ‘divine vision’.

Eques Romanus and Pater active in S. Stefano Rotondo.

Lion and legitimate priest of Carsulae.

Dedicated multiple monuments to Mithras, Fortuna Primigenia and Diana in Etruria.

Pater Patrum at Emerita Augusta

Garlic merchant, probably from Lusitania, who dedicated an altar to Cautes in Tarraconensis.

He erected one of the last known mithraea on his property.