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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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Notitia

Mithraism As Proud Boy Prototype: Underground Clubs of the Syndexioi and Pueri Superbi

Tracing the links between the cult of Mithras and the Proud Boys’ quest for identity, power, and belonging. How ancient rituals and brotherhood ideals resurface in radical modern movements.

Monumentum

Plaque of Astorga

This slab dedicated to the invincible god, Serapis and Isis by Claudius Zenobius was found in 1967 in the walls of the city of Astorga, Spain.

Monumentum

Altar of Rufius Caeionius Sabinus

In this 4th-century Roman altar, the senator Rufius Caeionius Sabinus defines himself as Pater of the sacred rites of the unconquered Mithras, having undergone the taurobolium.

Monumentum

Aion of Vienne

The relief of Aion from Vienne includes a naked youth in Phrygian cap holding the reins of a horse.

Monumentum

Base of statue from Mérida

This lost monument bears an inscription to Cautes by a certain Tiberius Claudius Artemidorus.

Notitia

The Golden Ass: Book XI

The concluding book of Apuleius’ Golden Ass (or Metamorphoses), where Lucius, the story’s protagonist, undergoes initiation into the mysteries of Isis and Osiris.

Video

The Rudchester Mithraeum

The archaeology of the Rudchester Mithraeum

Monumentum

Mithras rock-born from Ptuj

The sculpture includes a serpent climbing the rock from which Mithras is born.

Monumentum

Altar of Titullus from Rudchester

This sandstone altar from the Mithraeum of Vindobala (modern Rudchester) preserves a dedication to the Invincible Mithras by P. Aelius Titullus, prefect of a cohort.

Locus

Kadine-Most (Kadin Most)

Kadine-Most lies within the central Balkan region historically connected with Roman Moesia.

Locus

Dolni Vadin (Dolni Vadin)

Dolni Vadin occupies a position near the Danubian frontier zone of northern Thrace.

Monumentum

Mithraeum at Sárkeszi

Mithraic sanctuary found at Sárkeszi near Székesfehérvár, Pannonia Inferior, in a place called Ságvölgyi; yielding altars, tauroctony reliefs, and cult objects.

Monumentum

Altar of Claudius Neronianus from Campona

Sandstone altar from Campona, Pannonia Inferior, dedicated to Deo Soli invicto by Claudius Neronianus; the dedication is painted red.

Monumentum

Votive stone of Tiberius Claudius Mace from Epfach

Votive stone found at Epfach in 1830, ancient Abudiacum in Raetia, dedicated to Soli sacrum by Tiberius Claudius Mace, son of Tiberius Claudius Mace, apparently a dedication by a son continuing his father's cult.

Monumentum

Possible Mithraeum at Thun-Allmendingen

Site excavated by C. F. L. Lohner in 1824–25 at the Renzenbühl near Thun-Allmendingen, Germania Superior, where the outline of five rooms was identified, one or more of which may have served as a Mithraic sanctuary.

Monumentum

Lion with ox head from Mithraeum III, Aquincum

Sandstone statue from near Mithraeum III at Aquincum, Pannonia Inferior, depicting a lion to the right with an open frontal mouth, holding an ox head between its forefeet with a red-painted tongue.

Monumentum

Mithraeum of Rožanec

According to Hitzinger remnants of animal bones were found in front of the relief of the Mithraeum at Rozanec.

Monumentum

Marble statue of Cautopates from Intercisa

This statuette of Cautopates from Intercisa shows the torchbearer holding a burning torch and a pelta at his side.

Monumentum

Tauroctony from Gimmeldingen

This relief of Mithras killing the bull found in Gimmeldingen, Germany, lacks the usual raven.

Monumentum

Altar of Chrestion from Alba Iulia

In 1852, Károly Pap, a naval captain, unearthed several Mithraic monuments in his garden at Marospartos, including this altar.

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