The New Mithraeum Database

Exploring religion, rituals, archaeological insights, and historical impact of the Cult of Mithras in the Danubian provinces.

Exploring religion, rituals, archaeological insights, and historical impact of the Cult of Mithras in the Danubian provinces.

This altar was erected by Hermadio, who also signed other monuments in Dacia and even in Rome.

TNMM579 – CIMRM 2153

This altar was erected by Hermadio, who also signed other monuments in Dacia and even in Rome.

TNMM580

A certain Hermanio has been identified in the dedication of several monuments in different cities in Dacia and even in Rome.

TNMM581

This altar was erected by Hermadio, who also signed other monuments in Dacia and even in Rome.

TNMM578 – CIMRM 2146

The Danubian provinces represent one of the largest macro-units within the Roman Empire, with a large and rich heritage of Roman material evidence. Although the notion itself is a modern 18th-century creation, this region represents a unique area, where t…

Hermadio's inscriptions have been found in Dacian Tibiscum and Sarmizegetusa, as well as in Rome.

The relief of Mithra slaying the bull from Apulum, Romania, has been missing until the scholar Csaba Szabó identified it in the diposit of the Arad Museum.

TNMM346 – CIMRM 1938

Clarissimus knight and legate born in Poetovio that helped to disseminate the cult of Mithras in the African provinces.

The Mithraeum of Marino presents an unusually elongated structure with depictions from the Severian period.

TNMM22

This gemstone depicting Mithras killing the bull, preserved in the Ploiești Museum, originated from Prahova County or south of the Danube area.

TNMM794

The relief of Mithras killing the bull, found near Zvornik in Bosnia and Herzegovina, features some variations on the usual scene.

TNMM765

This medallion belongs to a specific category of rounded pieces found in other provinces of the Roman world.

TNMM430 – CIMRM 2187

Emperor Caracalla ordered one of Rome’s largest temples to the god Mithras to be built in the baths bearing his name.

Veteran and ex duplicarius of ala I civum Romanorum who dedicated an altar to Mithras in Teutoburgium.

Greek-speaking member of the community of Mithras followers from Apulum in the 2nd century.

Slave who dedicated an altar to Nabarze in the Mithraeum of Sarmizegetusa.

Centurion who dedicated the first known Latin inscription to the invincible Mithras.

Veteran of the legion XIII and member of the Fabia tribe.