The New Mithraeum Database

This fragmentary inscription from Zuccabar, reused in the wall of the Sidi Abd-el-Kader mosque at Affreville, preserves a dedication to Sol Invictus.

The evidence from Roman Africa reflects the implantation of Mithraic cults within prosperous urban centres of the western Mediterranean.

The sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull was transported from Rome to London by Charles Standish in 1815.

This small Greek dedication from the island of Aenaria invokes Helios Mithras under the epithet “unconquered”.

This altar from Grumentum in Lucania was dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras by Titus Flavius Saturninus, an evocatus in imperial service.

Persia occupies a central place in the intellectual and historical background of Mithraic studies.

Crete and Cyrene connect Mithraic evidence to island, North African and eastern Mediterranean networks.

Roman Aegyptus preserves a distinctive body of Mithraic evidence shaped by Alexandria and the religious diversity of the eastern Mediterranean.

Roman Asia preserves a rich and diverse body of Mithraic evidence connected to the major cities of western Anatolia.

Achaea preserves some of the earliest and most culturally complex evidence for Mithraic activity in the Greek-speaking eastern Mediterranean.

Hector erected an altar to Mithras in Emerita Augusta by means of a ‘divine vision’.

This limestone altar from Roman Dacia preserves a dedication to Mithras by a commander of the Ala II Pannoniorum.

The remains of this Mithraeum were discovered in 1930 in the Cetatea district of Alba Iulia, ancient Apulum.

This statuette of Cautopates from Intercisa shows the torchbearer holding a burning torch and a pelta at his side.

This eulogy of Saint Eugene of Trapezos tells how, in the time of Diocletian, he and two other Christian fellows destroyed a statue of Mithras.

This monument has been identified from ’Memorie di varie antichità trovate in diversi luoghi della città di Roma’, a book by Flaminio Vacca of 1594.

The small medallion depicts three scenes from the life of Mithras, including the Tauroctony. It may come from the Danube area.

This fragment of a double relief shows a tauroctony on one side and the sacred meal, including a serving Corax, on the other.

This relief of Mithras killing the bull was dedicated by the bearer of the imperial standard of Legio XIII Gemina, Marcus Ulpius Linus.

Several Mithraic scenes, including Mithras with Saturn, Mithras with Sol and Mithras' Ascension, are depicted on this fragment of a relief from Ptuj.