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The New Mithraeum Database

Find news, articles, monuments, persons, books and videos related to the Cult of Mithras

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Hermadio

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

 
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Mithras in Dacia with Csaba Szabó

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

 
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Mithras in Dacia with Csaba Szabó

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

 
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Taurcotony of Secundinus

This remarkable marble statue of Mithras killing the bull from Apulum includes a unique dedication by its donor, featuring the rare term signum, seldom found in Mithraic contexts.

 
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Mithraeum of Sarmizegetusa

The large number of monuments found at the Mithraeum of Sarmizegetusa and the sheer size of the temple are unusual.

 
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Inscription of Dioscorus

One of the three known inscriptions of Dioscorus, servant of Marci, found in Alba Iulia, Romania.

 
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Altar of Hermadio from Tibiscum

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

 
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Tauroctony relief of Alba Iulia

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.

 
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Column to Nabarze of Protas

This column found in the Mithraeum of Sarmizegetusa bears an inscription to Nabarze instead of Mithras.

 
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Tauroctony of Aelius Hylas from Doştat

This monument bears an inscription by a certain Lucius Aelius Hylas, in which he associates Sol Invictus with Jupiter.

 
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Altar 2 of Tibiscum by Hermadio

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

 
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Altar of Sarmizegetusa by Hermadio

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

 
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Mithras Petrogenitus of Alba Iulia

Mithras born from the rock with a snake raising in coils around it.

 
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Tauroctony of Dragus

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

 
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Tauroctony medallion of Transylvania

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

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Marcus Valerius Maximianus

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

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Caracalla

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

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Hyacinthus

Hyacinthus, like Hermadio, seems to have been one of the profets of Mithraism in the Dacian region.

 
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Notes on a new Cautes statue from Apulum (jud. Alba / RO)

The article examines two recently discovered Mithraic representations of Cautes from Alba Iulia, focusing on a rare iconographic type showing the torchbearer with a bucranium.

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Αὐρήλιος Στέφανος

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

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