The New Mithraeum Database

Marble group of Dionysus accompanied by a Silenus on a donkey, a satyr and a menead.

Roger Beck revisits the zodiac circle of the Mithraeum on the island of Ponza, a composition unique within the Mithraic corpus. His reading places the monument in relation to cosmology, ritual space, and Mithraic doctrine.

Film in German describing the Mithras relief from Dieburg as part of the design and staging of the Mithraeum in Museum Schloss Fechenbach, Dieburg.

Mithras slaying the bull appears as the sign of Capricorn in a zodiacal sequence on the Pórtico del Cordero of the Abbey de Santo Domingo de Silos, Burgos, Spain.

This funerary inscription, engraved on a stone urn discovered near Roman Dijon, mentions a certain Chyndonax, described as a priestly leader of Mithras.

A limestone lion holding a flowing urn, discovered at the entrance of the Mithraeum of Les Bolards, reflects the ritual significance of water within the cult of Mithras.

Name: Dr. Hadi Valipour Date of Birth: August 26, 1983 Place of Birth: Iran Current Position: Assistant Professor of Eastern Religions, specializing in An

A Mithraeum was discovered in 2007, during the excavations at the Zerzevan Castle.

Fragmentary Greek graffito from Dura-Europos recording the prices of everyday goods such as wine, meat, wood and lamp wicks.

Limestone altar dedicated to Cautes by the Roman optio Septimius Valentinus, discovered in the Mithraeum of Sárkeszi in Pannonia Inferior.

Fragmentary limestone altar dedicated by Septimius Valentinus, an optio, probably discovered in Mithraeum IV at Aquincum.

Dijon is the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France. The earliest archaeological finds within the city limits of Dijon date to the Neolithic period.

Tiddis was a Roman city that depended on Cirta and a bishopric as Tiddi, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see. It was located on the territory of the current commune of Bni Hamden in the Constantine Province of eastern Algeria.

Numidia occupied a frontier and military landscape where Mithraic cults circulated through urban settlements and imperial infrastructure.

Neapolitan senator who dedicated a tauroctonic relief to Mithras tauroctonus to the Almighty God Mithras.

Corsica et Sardinia occupied an important insular position within the maritime networks of the western Mediterranean.

Corsica and Sardinia preserve a small island corpus within the western Mediterranean diffusion of Mithraism.

Both of them were discovered in 1609 in the foundations of the façade of the church of San Pietro, Rome.

This inscribed limestone altar from Roman Salona preserves several lists of ministers associated with the Tritones collegium during the Tetrarchic period.

This plaque from Carsulae, in Umbria, refers to the creation of a leonteum erected by the lions at their own expense.