The New Mithraeum Database

The present volume reconstructs the history of the mithraea of Güglingen. In addition, rich finds provide insight into hitherto unknown areas of the liturgical practice of the cult of Mithras.

Mithras the Cattle-Rustler: The Persian Cult of Fire as Divided into Sexed Powers and the Hidden Cave Rites of the Magi.

Passage from Plutarch’s Life of Pompey, recounting the rise, power, and insolence of the Cilician pirates before Pompey’s campaign to suppress them.

Two extracts from De abstinentia ab esu animalium by Porphyry on sacrifices and the importance of abstinence from animal food among Persian Magi.

Of Isis and Osiris or Of the Ancient Religion and Philosophy of Egypt, Plutarch, The Moralia.

Dion Chrysostom, c. 100 A.D., a philosophical writer under the emperors Nerva and Trajan, composed a series of discourses or essays (λόγοι) on various subjects, in one of which he reports concerning the doctrines and practices of the magi.

Commentaries by Pseudo-Nonnus, also known as Nonnus the Abbot, on Gregory Nazianzen’s In Julianum Imperatorem Invectivae Duae and In Sancta Lumina.

The scholiast Lactantius Placidus comments on Statius’ passage identifying the Sun as Titan, Osiris, and Mithras, interpreting the Persian cave figure with the bull.

Questions on the old and new testaments, 113.11. Ambrosiaster, 5th cent.

Two excerpts from the ’Life of Commodus’ in Lampridius’ Historia Augusta, dating from the 4th century CE.

Optio who erected several altars to Mithras in the Mithraeum of Sárkeszi.

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

Slave who, for the salvation of his master, built a spelaeum in Aquileia, complete with its furnishings.

The cenders of Chyndonax were found on an urn with an inscription that reads High Priest of Mithras.

Roman emperor, son of the emperor and Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius.

Centurion who dedicated the first known Latin inscription to the invincible Mithras.

Garlic merchant, probably from Lusitania, who dedicated an altar to Cautes in Tarraconensis.

He commissioned the main cult relief found in the Mithraeum of Circo Massimo.

Pater Patrum at Emerita Augusta

Pater Patrum of Ostia, he officiated at the Mitreo Aldobrandini where he is mentioned in a couple of inscriptions.