The New Mithraeum Database

Apulia connected southern Italy to the Adriatic and eastern Mediterranean through maritime trade and regional urban networks.

Campania preserved a vibrant urban and maritime environment closely connected to the commercial life of Roman Italy.

At the western edge of the Roman world, Mauretania Tingitana linked North Africa to Hispania through military and maritime exchange.

Mauretania Caesariensis connected western North Africa to Mediterranean trade routes and the provincial networks of the Roman empire.

Cilicia occupied a key position between Anatolia, Syria and the eastern Mediterranean maritime routes.

Lycia et Pamphylia connected southern Anatolia to the maritime networks of the eastern Mediterranean world.

Asia formed one of the most urbanised and interconnected provinces of the eastern Roman world where Mithraic cults circulated widely.

Bithynia et Pontus connected northwestern Anatolia to the Black Sea through major maritime, urban and provincial networks.

Achaea preserves some of the earliest and most culturally complex evidence for Mithraic cults in the Greek-speaking eastern Mediterranean.

Dalmatia connected the Adriatic world to the Balkan interior through maritime routes, military mobility and provincial urban networks.

Narbonensis connected Roman Gaul to the Mediterranean world through some of the oldest urban and maritime networks of the western empire.

One of the most eminent representatives of late antique pagan religiosity, combining high civic authority with deep initiation into multiple mystery traditions, including the cult of Mithras.

A vicarius of the imperial household dedicated to Mithras in Roman Angers.

Thracia reflects the circulation of Mithraic cults through the military, urban and maritime networks linking the Balkans, the Danube and the northern Aegean world.

The Mithra Tauroctonos from Syracuse, Sicily, is currently on display in the city's archaeological museum.

Roman Sicilia preserves Mithraic evidence shaped by Mediterranean mobility and the island’s strategic position between east and west.

The evidence from Roman Africa reflects the implantation of Mithraic cults within prosperous urban centres of the western Mediterranean.

The sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull was transported from Rome to London by Charles Standish in 1815.

Lycia and Pamphylia preserve Mithraic evidence linked to southern Anatolian maritime and urban networks.

Corsica and Sardinia preserve a small island corpus within the western Mediterranean diffusion of Mithraism.