The New Mithraeum Database

Moesia preserves a strongly militarised body of Mithraic evidence along the Danubian frontier of the empire.

Noricum preserves Mithraic evidence shaped by Alpine routes, military circulation and Danubian connections.

Cappadocia preserves evidence shaped by military movement, eastern frontier dynamics and Anatolian religious landscapes.

Armenia occupied a strategic position between Roman and Iranian religious worlds during the centuries of Mithraic expansion.

Bithynia and Pontus preserve important evidence for the diffusion of Mithraic cults across the Black Sea and northwestern Anatolia.

The Alpine regions preserve scattered Mithraic evidence associated with military circulation and strategic routes across the western empire.

Inscription from Hamadan where the ’great king’ Artaxerxes mentions Ahuramazda, Anahita, and Mithra as guardians.

Late Roman dux associated with the restoration of the so-called Mithraeum IV of Poetovio.

A probable Mithraic sanctuary at Poetovio, identified by Vermaseren as the so-called Mithraeum IV on the basis of four associated inscriptions.

This inscription probably belonged to the fourth mithraeum of Poetovio and records the restoration of a Mithraic temple by the dux Aurelius Iustinianus.

North African author, Platonic philosopher and rhetorician associated with the Mithraic milieu of Ostia.

An imperial slave and customs administrator of the Illyrian tax system, he financed and built a Mithraic temple in Moesia Superior.

Supervisor of the imperial couriers who offered an elaborate votive altar and ritual insignia to Mithras in Rome under Commodus.

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.

Late Roman senator, public augur and Mithraic pater active in the second half of the fourth century CE.

This limestone tauroctony from Aquincum preserves Mithras slaying the bull together with Cautopates, the serpent, the scorpion, and the legs of the raven.

This large limestone fragment from Roman Salona preserves the hind part of the bull together with Mithras’ foot and traces of his red tunic.

This small weathered marble fragment preserves part of a tauroctony with Cautes, Luna, the serpent, and a leaping dog.

This marble fragment from Roman Dacia preserves part of a tauroctony with Sol, the raven, and Mithras dragging the bull.