The New Mithraeum Database

Despite the current political landscape of the US, we can look to antiquity to see that the red cap was actually once a symbol of citizenship and welcome to the foreigner.

Founded on the site of ancient Byzantium and refounded in 330 CE, Constantinopolis became an imperial residence in the eastern Roman Empire. In the 4th century, it was a key setting for interaction between traditional cults and Christian authority.

The Mithraeum of Cyrene is preserved among the remarkable ruins of the ancient capital of the Roman province of Cyrene.

Fragments of a krater of a sort of green glazed maiolica with silver sheen.

CIL VI 752; MMM II No.

On two fragments of greyish marble.

Fragment of a white marble relief (H. about 0.60 Br. about 0.67).