The New Mithraeum Database

The Mithraeum under and behind S. Prisca on the Aventine is without doubt the most important sanctuary of the Persian god in Rome.

Scholar, politician and a court astrologer to the Roman emperors Claudius, Nero and Vespasian.

Libertus from the Arrii-family to which also belonged the Emperor Antonius Pius.

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

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

The Mithriac votive sculpture comes from a clandestine excavation in the Tarquinia area. The criminal chain is active in archaeological areas of Rome and southern Etruria.

Neapolitan senator who dedicated a tauroctonic relief to Mithras tauroctonus to the Almighty God Mithras.

Roger Beck describes Mithraism from the point of view of the initiate engaging with the religion and its rich symbolic system in thought, word, ritual action, and cult life.

Procurator of Tarraconensis, he dedicated a monument to the Invincible God, Isis and Serapis in Asturica Augusta.

Pater from Nersae, Italia, known by an inscription of his mithraic Apronianus.

Slave and bailiff of Tiberius Claudius Livianus.

Known for the donation of the bronze plaque of Virunum.

The pater Artemidorus seems to be an Augustan freedman of the Claudians, of Eastern origin.

Thrasyllus was an Egyptian of Greek descent grammarian, astrologer and a friend of the Roman emperor Tiberius.

Veteran from Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium (Köln) who erected an inscritiption to Mithras and his ally Sol.

Roman emperor and philosopher known for his attempt to restore Hellenistic polytheism.

Fifth Roman emperor and last of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, reigning from 54 until his death in 68.