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The New Mithraeum Database

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Syndexios

Gaius Rufius Virilis

Known from an altar dedicated to his father Gaius Rufius Eutactus, Pater Patrum of the Mithraic community of Vieu.

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Flavius Antistianus

Equestrian pater patrorum whose dedication to Cautes attests the involvement of Rome’s elite in Mithraism.

Liber

Dura Europos. Crossroads to Antiquity

An interdisciplinary volume exploring the history, archaeology, and cultures of Dura-Europos from the Hellenistic to the Islamic period.

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Potentianus

Pater who consecrated the Mithraeum of Gimmeldingen during the final phase of Mithraic worship in the Rhineland.

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief of Sidon

The tauroctony relief of Sidon depicts the signs of the zodiac and the four seasons, among other familiar features.

Monumentum

Ara of the Mithraeum of Lugo

Victorius Victorious, centurion of the Legio VII, erected the altar in honour of the Lugo garrison and of the Victorius Secundus and Victor, his freedmen.

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Elaine

Imperial slave who, together with Successus, fulfilled a vow to Cautes, providing one of the earliest possible attestations of Mithraic worship in Hispania.

Monumentum

Lion-headed Aion from Sidon

The controversial Italian journalist Edmon Durighello discovered this marble statue of a young naked Aion in 1887.

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Flavius Gerontios

Pater nominos in Sidon, he consecrated a number of sculptures, including a Hecataion.

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Μᾶρκος Αὐρήλιος Σέλευκος

Lifelong pater of Mithras in Anazarbus, holding the civic title Father of the Homeland.

Monumentum

Frescoes from the tomb of Aelius Magnus and Aelia Arisuth in Oea

The Mithraic nature of the frescoes of Oea, according to the scholars Cumont and Vermaseren, is now questioned.

Monumentum

Treaty between Šuppiluliuma I and Šattiwaza of Mitanni

Late Bronze Age treaty from Ḫattuša invoking Mitra, Varuna, Indra and the Nāsatyas among the divine witnesses of the Hittite-Mitanni oath.

Locus

Ḫattuša (Boğazkale)

Hattusa, also Hattuşa, Ḫattuša, Hattusas, or Hattusha, was the capital of the Hittite Empire in the late Bronze Age during two distinct periods.

Liber

Římský kult boha Mithry. Atlas lokalit a katalog nálezů I

A comprehensive and critically updated catalogue of Mithraic sites, monuments and artefacts across the Roman world, incorporating both accepted and disputed evidence while reassessing decades of scholarship in light of recent research.

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Marcus Valerius Maximianus

Senator, imperial legate and commander from Poetovio, whose dedications to Mithras link the Danubian and African diffusion of the cult.

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Blastia

Dedicator of a rare altar jointly honouring Mithras and Silvanus at Emona, whose ambiguous name has fuelled debate over whether the dedicant was a man or a woman.

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Junia Zosime

Junia Zosime is known from an inscription discovered at Ostia recording the donation of a silver statue of the Virtus of the dendrophori.

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Gaius Valerius Nicomedes

Ostian sacerdos remembered through his participation in the dedication of the monumental leontocephalic image erected under Commodus in 190 CE.

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Lucius Petreius Victor

Garlic merchant and devotee of Cautes whose dedication at Can Modolell reflects the integration of Mithraic worship into the commercial life of Roman Tarraconensis.

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Lucius Servilius Superatus

Known from a dedication to Dominus Invictus in Malaca, he may represent an early and uncertain witness to Mithraism in Baetica.

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