The New Mithraeum Database

Fragment of a large marble relief from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, preserving the forepart of the bull, the leaping dog, and the serpent approaching the wound.

Duplicate inscription from Mithraeum I at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, set up by Primitivos in memory of Hyacinthus; a companion piece to no. 1501, suggesting that the two inscriptions flanked the cult niche.

Inscription from Mithraeum I at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, dedicated to Cautes sacrum by Venulus, slave of Aponius Ingenuus.

Inscription from Sisak, ancient Siscia, dedicated to Iovi optimo maximo, Soli invicto, and the Genius loci by Aurelius Antiocianus; the Mithraic character is uncertain.

Marble fragment from the Zollfeld at Virunum, Noricum, bearing a dedication to Deo invicto Mithrae for the welfare of the Emperor Antoninus Augustus.

Inscription from Virunum, Noricum, dedicated to Deo Soli invicto by Iuventinus, who identifies himself with the Mithraic grade leo — one of the clearest grade attributions in the epigraphic record of Noricum.

Ara litteris rubricatis from Mainz, ancient Mogontiacum, dedicated to Deo invicto Mithrae, with the dedicant's name only partly legible

This lion-headed figure from Nida, present-day Frankfurt-Heddernheim, holds a key and a shovel in his hands.

Rosenheim is a city in Bavaria, Germany.

Verulamium was a town in Roman Britain.

Dura-Europos was a Hellenistic, Parthian and Roman frontier city built on the Euphrates River. It was founded around 300 BC by Seleucus I Nicator. The Romans took Dura-Europos in 165 AD.

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.

Slave and vilicus in the household of Tiberius Claudius Livianus, linked to the earliest known Mithraic tauroctony.

In this conversation with Lenni George, on the occasion of the release of her latest book ‘The Rites of Hekate: From the Dirt to the Divine,’ we explore that shifting presence: a goddess of thresholds, of illumination and obscurity, of descent and return…

This tauroctony may have come from Hermopolis and its style suggests a Thraco-Danubian origin.

Archaeologists at Doliche are now excavating houses around the vast Mithras temple to learn how people lived beside the sanctuary.

Dedicated a stele in Nicopolis ad Istrum.

Priest and astrologer of Milan.

He bought back the Mithraeum I of Ptuj and restored it.

He was one of the new brothers mentioned on the bronze plaque of Virunum.