The New Mithraeum Database

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.

He was a Heliodromus who recorded his grade on an inscription dedicated to Mithras.

Soldier recruited in Arausio (Orange), emeritus of the Legion II Augusta.

Commander of the archers at Dura Europos, he financed the second Tauroctony.

Centurio frumentarius probably from Tarraco, who served in the Legio VII Gemina located in Emerita Agusta.

Textile merchant from Augusta Treverorum and Pater of his community, he left testimony of his cult to Mithras in the 3rd century.

Firmidius Severinus was a soldier who served in the Legio VIII Augusta for 26 years.

Vir clarissimus and governor of Numidia, who dedicated a temple to Mithras with its images and ornaments in Cirta.

Greek-speaking member of the community of Mithras followers from Apulum in the 2nd century.

Centurion of the Legio VII Gemina Antoniana Pia Felix who erected the only known mithraeum at Lucus Augusti to date.

Public treasurer known for several inscriptions to Mithras found in San Silvestro.

Probably the Pater of the Mithraeum of Ostia which bears his name.

Approved priest, Augustal serf at Casuentum et Carsulae, appointed quaestor of the Augustus treasury.

Governor of Numidia in 303, vir perfectissimus Valerius Florus was a well-known persecutor of Christians.

The Rusicade Mithraeum is notable for the absence of a tauroctony relief, instead yielding multiple altars and unusual installations including conduit pipes and a pine-cone shaped stone.

A white marble relief from the Forum Vetus shows Mithras with a raised lance, likely part of a larger ensemble of deities.

Imperial slave who donated an altar to Mithras for the benefit of the emperor Caracalla.