The New Mithraeum Database

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…

Mithraic stele, from Alba Iulia, Romania, with inscription.

TNMM257 – CIMRM 1937

A naked Sol leans over his fellow Mithras while raising his drinking-horn during the sacred feast.

TNMM291

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

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

TNMM578 – CIMRM 2146

This sculpture of Cautes holding a bull's head was found in 1882 in Sarmizegetusa, Romania.

TNMM522 – CIMRM 2122, 2123

The sculpture of Oceanus in Merida bears an inscription by the Pater Patrorum Gaius Accius Hedychrus.

TNMM428 – CIMRM 778, 779

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

The fraternal order that focussed on the worship of the ancient Iranian god Mithra was probably formed in Iran, Armenia, and Pontus (the southern coastal region of the Black Sea in eastern Anatolia, present-day Turkey). Travelers and colonists from theseS…

Altar depicting the god Mithras or Cautes on a bull.

TNMM155 – CIMRM 2186

Several elements, such as the snake, scorpion or dog, are missing from this tauroctony relief of Cluj.

TNMM280 – CIMRM 2025

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

The Mithraeum of Marino is the longest temple devoted to Mithras know hitherto.

TNMM22

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

The Mithraeum of Els Munts, near Tarragona, is one of the largest known to date.

TNMM31

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

TNMM765

This small relief of Mithras killing the bull was found in 1859 in Turda, in the Cluj region of Romania.

TNMM668 – CIMRM 1920, 1921

The tauroctonic relief from Dragus includes a naked flying figure that Vermaseren has identified as Phosporus or Lucifer.

TNMM310 – CIMRM 1919

This marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was made by a freedman who dedicated it to his old masters.

TNMM638 – CIMRM 1935, 1936