The New Mithraeum Database

I am honored to present my first book devoted to the cult of Mithras in ancient North Africa. Structured into four main sections, it also features a catalogue of twenty inscriptions and twenty-six illustrative plates…

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Dion Chrysostom, c. 100 A.D., a philosophical writer under the emperors Nerva and Trajan, composed a series of discourses or essays (λόγοι) on various subjects, in one of which he reports concerning the doctrines and practices of the magi.

White marble statue of Lion-head god of time, formerly in the Villa Albani, nowadays in the Musei Vaticani.

Founder of the Arasacid dynasty, Tiridates I was crowned king of Armenia by Nero in 66.

Vir perfectissimus and priest of Zeus Brontes and Hekate, he erected a mithraeum in Rome.

Pater sacrorum and founder of the Mithraeum under the Basilica of S. Lorenzo.

Pater Patrum and Senator. He was also the patriarch of the Olympian dynasty, overseeing a Mithraic community in the centre of Rome.

Danube region can be traced back to the legions that fought under his command in Armenia.

Slave of the imperial family and dispensator who repaired an image of Mithras in Tibur, near Rome.

Marcellinus was an antistes who reached the grade of Leo in Rome.

Senator and Pater Sacrorum of Mithras, who consecrated several monuments in Rome in the late 4th century.

A freedman of Septimius Severus, he was Pater and priest of the invincible Mithras, as mentioned in a marble inscription found in Rome.

Together with his son, with whom he shares his name, Kastos has dedicated several monuments in Rome to the glory of Zeus Helios Mithras.

Valerius was a discharged veteran was a worshipper of the Undefeated Mithras in Künzing.

Together with two other brothers, he offered a relief of the tauroctony in Rome.

Doryphorus gave his grade and name in a monumental candalabrum found in Rome.

Together with his father, Kastos dedicated several monuments in Rome to the glory of Zeus Helios Mithras.