The New Mithraeum Database

This catalogue proposes, thanks to the contributions of some 75 international experts, a new synthesis for a complex and fascinating cult that reflects the remarkable advances in our knowledge in recent decades.

This inscription, found in the Mitreo della Planta Pedis, among some other monuments in Ostia, suggests a link between Mithras and Silvanus.

A certain Blastia or Blastianus made a dedication to Mithras and Silvanus on an altar in Emona, Pannonia.

Employing all the available data & survivals of the historic Persio-Roman Mithraics. Embodying versions of Zoroastrian Scriptures; Combining the religions of all races & times...

The epigrahy includes a mention of Marcus Aurelius, a priest of the god Sol Mithras, who bestowed joy and pleasure on his students.

Votive inscription dedicated to Mithras by the veteran soldier Tiberius Claudius Romanius, from the Mithraeum II Köln, 3rd century.

The donor of this Mithraic inscription from Bolsena, a certain Tiberius Claudius Thermoron, is known from two other monuments.

This unusual mosaic representation of the god Silvanus was found in the Mithreaum of the so-called Imperial Palace in Ostia.

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

A Mithraeum was discovered in 2007, during the excavations at the Zerzevan Castle.

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

The marble relief of Mithras killing the bull in Naples bears an inscription that calls the solar god omnipotentis.

There are no further details about this Mithraic statue from Transylvania, the historical region of central Romania.

This 3rd century marble relief of Silvanus is the only sculpture found in Mitreo Aldobrandini.

This is the earliest sculpture of Mithras killing the bull known to date.

The Macerata Tauroctony shows Mithra slaying the bull with the usual Pyrigian cap and six rays around his head.

meu nome é Edvan Alves de oliveira, atualmente sou estudante de história pela universidade federal de Goiás no Brasil