The New Mithraeum Database

The Kempraten Mithraeum was unexpectedly discovered during the 2015 excavations near the vicus.

Centum Prata is the name of a Roman vicus, whose remains are located on the eastern Zürichsee lakeshore in Kempraten, a locality of the municipality Rapperswil-Jona in the canton of St.

A.B. Candidate in Departments of History and Classics at Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)

Evidence for a Mithraeum at Sentinum (modern Sassoferrato) in ancient Umbria, attested by a marble tauroctony group and three inscriptions, with a related mosaic found on the grounds of the Countess of Leuchtenberg and later given to King Louis of Bavaria…

Altar from the Prati di Castello area of Rome, with a dedication to Sol Invictus Mithras by L. Domitius Frontinus.

The sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull was transported from Rome to London by Charles Standish in 1815.