The New Mithraeum Database

On ne saurait qu'applaudir à l'idée qu'a eue V. J. Walters de faire le point des découvertes mithriaques en Gaule romaine. Son projet reste dominé par le découpage administratif des « Roman provinces of Gaul ». Mais compte tenu de l'ensemble que ce…

The Danubian provinces represent one of the largest macro-units within the Roman Empire, with a large and rich heritage of Roman material evidence. Although the notion itself is a modern 18th-century creation, this region represents a unique area, where t…

In this article, Chalupa examines the scant evidence that has been found for the presence of women in the Roman cult of Mithras.

This terra sigillata was found in 1926 in a grave on the Roman cemetery of St. Matthias, Trier. An eyelet indicates that it could have been hung on a wall.

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The cantharus of Trier is reminiscent of the crater that often appears in tauroctony scenes collecting the blood from the slaughtered animal.

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This altar found at ancient Burginatum is the northernmost in situ Mithraic find on the continent.

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Legate of the Legion II Adiutrix, stationed in Aquincum.

The vessel to burn incense from the Mithraeum of Dieburg is similar to those found in other Roman cities of Germany.

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Mithras and Sol share a sacred meal accompanied by Cautes and Cautopates on a relief found in a cemetery from Croatia.

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Emperor Caracalla ordered one of Rome’s largest temples to the god Mithras to be built in the baths bearing his name.

Veteran and ex duplicarius of ala I civum Romanorum who dedicated an altar to Mithras in Teutoburgium.

Gladiator to whom his companions Cimber and Pietas erected a monument in Colonia, Germania.

Freedman and administrator of the country estate of a certain Flavius Macedo in Moesia.

The son of an eponymous person, he consecrated an altar to Helios Mithras in Kreta, Moesia inferior.

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

Clarissimus knight and legate born in Poetovio that helped to disseminate the cult of Mithras in the African provinces.

Praeses of the Noric Mediterranean province, of equestrian rank, restaured the Mithraeum of Virunum in 311.

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

The Mithraic vase from Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium in Germany includes Sol-Mithras between Cautes and Cautopates, as well as a serpent, a lion and seven stars.

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Over the last century or so, a great deal has been said about the god Mithras and his mysteries, which became known to the European world mainly through his Roman cultus during the Imperial Period.