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The New Mithraeum Database

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Lucius Agrius Calendius

Dedicated a floor mosaic to his god.

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Atimetus

Imperial slave and an overseer of the Imperial estates who dedicated a Tauroctony to the Invincible god Sol.

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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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Marcus Antonius Victorinus

A powerful and wealthy man, founder of a mithraeum in the city of Aquincum of which he was the mayor.

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Commodus

Roman emperor, son of the emperor and Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius.

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Tiberius Claudius Romanius

Veteran from Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium (Köln) who erected an inscritiption to Mithras and his ally Sol.

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Tiberius Claudius Quintilianus

Known for the donation of the bronze plaque of Virunum.

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Marcus Valerius Secundus

Centurio frumentarius probably from Tarraco, who served in the Legio VII Gemina located in Emerita Agusta.

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Alcimus

Slave and bailiff of Tiberius Claudius Livianus.

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Secundinius Amantius

He was cornicularius, supply officer, to the prefect of the Legion XXII Primigenia.

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Chrestion

Freedman from Greek-speaking origin who dedicated an altar to the invincible Mythra.

 
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Hieronymus’ letter to Laeta

In Letter 107 to Laeta, Jerome combines a pastoral reflection on conversion with an account of the urban prefect Gracchus, who ordered the destruction of a Mithraic cave in Rome, listing the seven grades of initiation associated with the cult.

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Chyndonax (Χυνδόναξ)

The cenders of Chyndonax were found on an urn with an inscription that reads High Priest of Mithras.

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Materninius Faustinus

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

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Martius Martialis

Pater who offered several monuments, including a temple, in Augusta Treverorum.

 
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Aion (?) from Janiculum Hill

Roman relief from a sanctuary on the Janiculum Hill (Rome), showing a male figure bound by a serpent coiled seven times.

 
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Gregory of Nazianzus on rites, tortures and orgies

A series of polemical passages in which a leading fourth-century Christian theologian presents the cult of Mithras as a religion defined by cruelty, bodily suffering, and shameful initiation rites.

 
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Cautes from Boppard

Statue of Cautes from Bodobrica, discovered around 1940, depicting the torchbearer standing before a tree or rock and associated with a bucranium.

 
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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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Mithréum de Vienne

Emperor Julian may have been initiated into the cult of the god Mithras at the Mithraeum of Vienne, France, according to Turcan.

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