The New Mithraeum Database

Roger Beck describes Mithraism from the point of view of the initiate engaging with the religion and its rich symbolic system in thought, word, ritual action, and cult life.

An inscription mentioning a speleum decorated by Publilius Ceionius suggests the location of a mithraeum in Cirta, the capital of Numidia.

The Mithraeum of Serdica was found in the fortified area of the ancient city of Serdica, now Sofia, Bulgaria.

Commentaries by Pseudo-Nonnus, also known as Nonnus the Abbot, on Gregory Nazianzen’s In Julianum Imperatorem Invectivae Duae and In Sancta Lumina.

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

He was initiated and cured thanks to the invincible Nabarze.

Governor of Numidia in 303, vir perfectissimus Valerius Florus was a well-known persecutor of Christians.

Priest and astrologer of Milan.

Dedicated multiple monuments to Mithras, Fortuna Primigenia and Diana in Etruria.

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

He erected one of the last known mithraea on his property.

Aphrodisius, probably of Greek origin, must have been a slave of the Cornelii.

Marcus Statius Niger was a lion who erected an altar to Cautopates in Statio, the present-day Angera, with his brother Gaius.

The Aion / Phanes relief, currently on display in the Gallerie Estensi, Moneda, is associated with two Eastern mysteric religions: Mithraism and Orphism.

The Mithraeum at Espronceda Street, in Merida, was discovered in 2000. It is a semi-subterranean temple.

The Niasar Cave, غار نیاسر, was a temple probably devoted to Iranian Mithras that dates back to the early Partian era.

The relief depict several unusual scenes from Mithras’s myth.

This very fine relief of Mithras killing the bull was discovered in 2014 in Germán, near Sofia, Bulgaria, and is now housed in the Sofia History Museum.

The Mithraeum was inserted into the basement of the basilica-theater by the 3rd century.