The New Mithraeum Database in Spain

This fragmented altar was found in two pieces that Ana Osorio Calvo has recently brought together.

TNMM586

Small white marble altar made in honour of Mithras found at San Albín, Mérida.

TNMM426 – CIMRM 796

This altar is dedicated to the birth of Mithras by a frumentarius of the Legio VII Geminae.

TNMM338 – CIMRM 793

The Mithraeum of Els Munts, near Tarragona, is one of the largest known to date.

TNMM31

The Mithraeum of Cabra is located in the Villa del Mitra, which owes its name to the discovery in 1951 of a Mithras tauroctonus in the remains of the Roman villa.

TNMM76

This slab dedicated to the invincible god, Serapis and Isis by Claudius Zenobius was found in 1967 in the walls of the city of Astorga, Spain.

TNMM734

This fragment of the base of a statue from Tarragona, Spain, bears an inscription which appears to be dedicated to the invincible Mithras.

TNMM743 – CIMRM 806

The capital of Hispania Tarraconensis, Tarraco is the oldest Roman settlement on the Iberian Peninsula.

Astorga is a municipality and city of Spain located in the central area of the province of León, in the autonomous community of Castilla y León, 43 kilometres southwest of the provincial capital.

Recent interpretations link this marble inscription to the cult of the goddess Nemesis.

TNMM733 – CIMRM 768

This lost monument from Malaga, Spain, to Dominus Invictus has been linked to the cult of Mithras, although there is not enough evidence.

TNMM732 – CIMRM 767

Málaga is a municipality of Spain, capital of the Province of Málaga, in the autonomous community of Andalusia.

This unfinished Mithras tauroctonos without the usual surrounding animals was found in 1923 in Italica, near Seville, Spain.

TNMM659 – CIMRM 769

Italica was an ancient Roman city in Hispania; its site is close to the town of Santiponce in the province of Seville, Spain.

Set in a Roman necropolis, the so-called Mithraeum of the Elephant takes its name from an elephant statue found in one of the tombs.

TNMM289

This head of Serapis from Cerro de San Albín may be unrelated to Mithras worship.

TNMM470 – CIMRM 783

The monument of San Juan de la Isla (Asturias) devoted to Mithras was preserved in the portico of the main church until 1843.

TNMM196 – CIMRM 803

The area was populated by Iberians, but the origins of Baetulo date back to the 1st century BC, when the Romans founded the city on the Rosés hill. Baetulo was famous for its vineyards, which produced wine for export throughout the Empire.

Emerita Augusta was founded in 25 BC by order of the Emperor Augustus to protect a pass and a bridge over the Guadiana River. The city became the capital of the province of Lusitania and one of the most important cities in the Roman Empire.

Cabra is a municipality in Córdoba province, Andalusia, Spain and the site of former bishopric Egabro.