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The New Mithraeum Database

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Aulus Aemilius Antoninus

A Mithraic pater of Ostia who dedicated an altar to Cautes in the Mithraeum of the Painted Walls.

Cohors

Ostia 192 A.D.

A historical role-playing game inspired by the archaeology of Roman Mithraism. Applications are now open and places are limited. The next campaign begins on 24 June.

Monumentum

Bronze medallion of Gordian III with tauroctony

The bronze medallion, from Cilicia, shows Mithras Tauroctonus on the revers.

Syndexios

Messius Artemidorus

Magister of a Bracaran sodalicium associated with the cult of Mithras in Roman Lusitania.

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Symphorus

Donor of the monumental tauroctony that served as the central cult image of Mithraeum IV in Aquincum.

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Valerian

Roman emperor from 253 to 260, he was taken captive by Shapur I of Persia. He was thus the first emperor to be captured as a prisoner of war.

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Melichrisus

Early Mithraic Leo from Novae whose name has been associated with the honey symbolism of the leonine grade.

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Antiochus I

King of the Greco-Iranian Kingdom of Commagene.

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Titus Flavius Saturninus

Veteran recalled to imperial service and sole named devotee of Mithras currently attested at Grumentum.

Monumentum

Tauroctony from Chrestos

This relief of Mithras killing the bull, signed by a certain Χρῆστος, is on display in the Sala dei Animali of the Vatican Museum.

Monumentum

Altar from Grumentum

This altar from Grumentum in Lucania was dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras by Titus Flavius Saturninus, an evocatus in imperial service.

Monumentum

Golden magical ring from the Castellani Collection

Gold ring amulet formerly in the Schlumberger Collection, published as Mithraic by Cumont and later identified as a healing charm against colic and diseases of the uterus.

Locus

Tomis (Constanța)

Tomis became one of the principal urban and maritime centres of the western Black Sea coast.

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Thasos (Thasos)

The island of Thasos occupied an important position in the northern Aegean maritime network.

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Pola (Pula)

Pola developed into one of the principal urban and maritime centres of the northern Adriatic.

Locus

Brattia (Brač)

The island of Brattia, modern Brač, formed part of the Adriatic maritime landscape of Dalmatia.

Locus

Boka Kotorska (Kotor)

The Bay of Kotor formed an important maritime zone linking the Adriatic coast with the inland Balkans.

Locus

Arba (Rab)

The island settlement of Arba occupied a strategic position along the eastern Adriatic maritime routes.

Monumentum

Two terracotta lamps with Mithraic imagery from the Passeri collection, Pesaro

Two terracotta lamps formerly in the Coll. Passeri and now probably in the Museo Olivieri at Pesaro: the first showing Mithras as a bullkiller, the second in the shape of a bull's head inscribed Μέθρα ἱερός on the horns, both regarded as probably forged…

Monumentum

Two small heads in Phrygian caps from Cataio

Two small marble heads in Phrygian caps from the Castle at Cataio in the Veneto, cited by Dütschke, which may belong to torchbearer figures.

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