The New Mithraeum Database

Jaime Alvar hace en este libro un estudio exhaustivo de las condiciones en las que se produce la introducción de Mitra en Hispania, a finales del siglo I d. C., en un momento sorprendentemente prematuro en relación con otras regiones del occidente latin…

The Mithraeum at Espronceda Street, in Merida, was discovered in 2000. It is a semi-subterranean temple.

TNMM244

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

Pater Patrum at Emerita Augusta

Centurio frumentarius probably from Tarraco, who served in the Legio VII Gemina located in Emerita Agusta.

Pater patrum and Pater sacrorum among other titles.

Gaius dedicated an altar to the god Invictus in Emerita Augusta in the 2nd century.

The small Mithraic altar found at Cerro de San Albin, Merida, bears an inscription to the health of a certain Caius Iulius.

TNMM427 – CIMRM 795

Although the site at Cerro de San Albín is not a Mithraeum, archaeologists have found several monuments related to the cult of Mithras.

TNMM29 – CIMRM 772

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 remains of the mithraic triptic of Tróia, Lusitania, were part of a bigger composition.

TNMM245 – CIMRM 798

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

TNMM470 – CIMRM 783

The pater Artemidorus seems to be an Augustan freedman of the Claudians, of Eastern origin.

Jaime Alvar speculates that the Gran Mitreo de Mérida could have been located in this area, based on a series of materials unearthed by Mélida during the excavations of 1926 and 1927.

TNMM585

Hector erected an altar to Mithras in Emerita Augusta ’by means of a divine vision’, something unusual in Hispania.

These fragments of a monumental tauroctony found in the Cerro de San Albín must have decorated the Gran Mitreo de Mérida, which has not yet been found.

TNMM584

The lion-headed figure, Aion, from Mérida, wears oriental knickers fastened at the waist by a cinch strap.

TNMM241 – CIMRM 776

The statue of Mercury in Merida bears a dedication from the Roman Pater of a community in the city in 155.

TNMM394 – CIMRM 780, 781