The New Mithraeum Database

Callimorphus dedicated this image of the sun god to the invincible sun 'Mythra'.

TNMM35 – CIMRM 17

From Turkey

Caesarea, also known historically as Mazaca, was an ancient city in what is now Kayseri, Turkey.

Callimorphus was a cashier (arkarius) of the estates of Chresimus, steward of emperors.

This silver amulet depicts Abraxas on one side and the first verses of the Book of Genesis in Hebrew on the other.

TNMM549

Caesarea was first settled by the Phoenicians in the 4th century BC. In 63 BC, the Romans annexed the region and Caesarea became the seat of the Roman procurators.

This shrine developed towards the end of 2nd century and remained active until beginning 4th.

TNMM33

From Israel

In 1973, Robert J. Bull began the excavation of a vault on the south side of the Inner Harbor of Caesarea Maritima, Israel. The vault was one of a row of warehouses built to store goods unloaded from the harbor built by Herod the Great. This monograph beg

M.J. VERMASEREN, Mithriaca III. The Mithraeum at Marino (Etudes préliminaires aux Religions orientales dans l'Empire romain, T. 16).— Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1982.— 24 χ 15,5, XIII + 105 p., 1 frontispice en couleurs, plusieurs illustr. dans le t., 32 pi (do