The New Mithraeum Database

Inscription from Apulum, Dacia, dedicated to Mithrae sacrum by a dedicant whose name begins with M.

Large marble base from near Kutyamál at Apulum, Dacia, dedicated ex iussu dei Apollinis and naming the Fons Aeternus — the eternal spring — by Ulpius Proculinus, speculator of Legio XIII Gemina.

Limestone base from near the Kutyamál vineyard south of the fortress at Apulum, Dacia, decorated with Bacchic vine scrolls and grapes at the top.

Statues of a man and a woman from the same Mithraic context at Apulum, Dacia; no further details are known.

Altar from Apulum, Dacia, dedicated to Iovi optimo maximo by Claudius Niger; included in the Mithraic corpus by proximity to other monuments from the same context.

Top of a limestone altar from Apulum, Dacia, with a rosette in the pediment and palmettes on the sides, recording a dedication to the Numen invicti by a dedicant whose name may be Vallerius.

Fragment of an open-work marble tauroctony from the Mithraeum at Apulum, Dacia, preserving Mithras's head with only the snout of the bull; the relief is framed by a border.

Lost white marble tauroctony relief from Turda, ancient Potaissa in Dacia, depicting the bull-slaying with dog, serpent, and scorpion; the inscription in the lower border named the dedicant Iulius Iulianus.

Inscription from a house staircase at Salona, Dalmatia, dedicated to Deo Mithrae invicto and all the other immortal gods by a dedicant whose name ends in -elius.

Right upper corner of a white marble bordered tauroctony relief from Salona or its surroundings, Dalmatia, with framing elements and part of the bull-slaying iconography.

Marble relief fragment from Intercisa, Pannonia Inferior, too damaged for the original subject to be identified.

Minor finds from Mithraeum IV at Aquincum, Pannonia Inferior, comprising a stamped terra-sigillata bowl (CINNAMI), serpent-vase fragments, pine-apples, altars, balls, and lamps.

Large limestone altar from near Mithraeum III at Aquincum, Pannonia Inferior, with a hole in the base probably designed to hold a cult object; the detailed iconographic programme of this altar is notable within the Aquincum Mithraic assemblage.

Third Mithraic sanctuary at Aquincum, Pannonia Inferior, between the Amphitheatre and the Krempelmühle, attested by five altars and a decorated mosaic; the building itself is not fully known.

Two marble reliefs of the same height from Brigetio, Pannonia Superior, each depicting a cross-legged torchbearer in Oriental dress — Cautes and Cautopates — holding their torches.

Small sandstone altar from Carnuntum, Pannonia Superior, dedicated to Deo Soli invicto by a dedicant whose name reads Sacellus; found in the Burgfeld in 1878.

Altar from Petronell, ancient Carnuntum, Pannonia Superior, dedicated to Soli divino ex visu by Lucius Aelius Leo — possibly the same individual who dedicated a further altar identifying himself as a miles of Legio XIIII Gemina.

Altar from Petronell, ancient Carnuntum, Pannonia Superior, dedicated to Deo invicto Mithrae by Aurelius, whose name is only partially preserved.

Minor finds from Mithraeum III at Carnuntum, Pannonia Superior, including lamps, bricks, pottery, and serpent-vase fragments; a coin of Macrinus (AD 217) from the entrance may provide a terminus, and the sanctuary is attested as restored in AD 307.

Minor finds from Mithraeum I at Carnuntum, Pannonia Superior, comprising legionary brick stamps, burnt coal and wood, ash with ox, sheep, and goat bones, and fragments of serpent-vases; the coin evidence points to a terminus ante quem in the early third century…