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The New Mithraeum Database

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Altar with inscription of Bingen

The monument was dedicated by two brothers, one of them being the Pater of his community.

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Album of Sentinum

This inscription reveals the names of 36 cultori of Sentinum, one of whom bears the title of pater leonum.

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Mithraeum of Kapıkaya

Mithras became the main deity worshipped in the sanctuary of Meter in Kapikaya, Turkey, in Roman times, at least until the fourth century.

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Altar of Vieu

This altar was dedicated by a son to his father, one of the few Patres Patrum recorded in the western provinces.

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Sol in quadriga of Entrains

In the mithraic relief of Entrains, the god Sol is depicted riding his chariot together with Luna and a krater surrounded by a serpent.

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Mithraeum of Dura Europos

The most emblematic of the Syrian Mithraea was discovered in 1933 by a team led by the Russian historian Mikhaïl Rostovtzeff.

Syndexios

Ulpius Egnatius Faventinus

Roman senator, public augur and Mithraic pater attested among the aristocratic dedications associated with the Vatican Phrygianum in 376 CE.

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Caelius Hilarianus

One of the clearest examples of the late Roman aristocracy’s involvement in the mysteries of Mithras and other initiatory cults during the fourth century.

Liber

Dura Europos. Crossroads to Antiquity

An interdisciplinary volume exploring the history, archaeology, and cultures of Dura-Europos from the Hellenistic to the Islamic period.

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief of Sidon

The tauroctony relief of Sidon depicts the signs of the zodiac and the four seasons, among other familiar features.

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Ara of the Mithraeum of Lugo

Victorius Victorious, centurion of the Legio VII, erected the altar in honour of the Lugo garrison and of the Victorius Secundus and Victor, his freedmen.

Locus

Nuzi (Yorghan Tepe)

Nuzi at modern Yorghan Tepe, Iraq was an ancient Mesopotamian city 12 kilometers southwest of the city of Arrapha and 70 kilometers southwest of Sātu Qala, located near the Tigris river.

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Treaty between Šuppiluliuma I and Šattiwaza of Mitanni

Late Bronze Age treaty from Ḫattuša invoking Mitra, Varuna, Indra and the Nāsatyas among the divine witnesses of the Hittite-Mitanni oath.

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Blastia

Dedicator of a rare altar jointly honouring Mithras and Silvanus at Emona, whose ambiguous name has fuelled debate over whether the dedicant was a man or a woman.

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Paterna

A Romano-Germanic woman whose inscription became central to debates on female participation in the Mithraic cult.

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Varia Severa

Known from a disputed inscription discovered near Mediolanum, she has been tentatively linked to a Mithraic dedication, although the interpretation remains controversial.

Socius

Laurent Bricault

Professeur d’histoire romaine à l’Université de Toulouse Jean-Jaurès.

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Victorius Secundus

One of the freedmen of Gaius Victorius Victorinus named in the dedication of the Mithraeum of Lugo.

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Victorius Victor

One of the freedmen of Gaius Victorius Victorinus named in the dedication of the Mithraeum of Lugo.

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