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The New Mithraeum Database

Find news, articles, monuments, persons, books and videos related to the Cult of Mithras

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Caracalla

Emperor Caracalla ordered one of Rome’s largest temples to the god Mithras to be built in the baths bearing his name.

 
Monumentum

Tauroctony from La Bâtie-Montsaléon

This damaged relief of Mithras killing the bull found in 1804 and formerly exposed at Gap, is now lost.

 
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Philosophy as a Rite of Rebirth. From Ancient Egypt to Neoplatonism

Algis Uždavinys presents philosophy as a sacred practice of inner rebirth, rooted in ancient Egyptian and traditional wisdom rather than a purely rational discipline.

 
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The Golden Chain of Initiation: Orphism, Eleusis, and Mystagogy—A Reinterpretation

By reading Orphic theology together with Eleusinian ritual practice, the mysteries emerge as a structured mystagogy of transformation: a disciplined passage from forgetfulness (Lethe) to knowledge (aletheia), from mortality to participation in the divine.

 
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The Eagles Depart

A historical novel framed as the memoir of a Brittano-Roman soldier witnessing the end of Roman Britain. It explores identity, loyalty, and survival at the twilight of empire.

 
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Mithraeum at Santa Maria Capua Vetere. Revisited in February 2026

This article revisits the Mithraeum of S. Maria Capua Vetere, one of the most complete and artistically refined Mithraic sanctuaries in the Campanian region, situating it within its archaeological, iconographic, and ritual-historical contexts.

 
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London Mithraeum

The Mithraeum of London, also known as the Walbrook Mithraeum, was contextualised and relocated to its original site in 2016.

 
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The Mithraic Origin and Meanings of the Rotas-Sator Square

Moeller interprets the square as a Mithraic construction encoding cosmological, numerical, and theological structures of Roman mystery religion, rather than an early Christian cryptogram.

 
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Il dio splendente. I Misteri romani di Mithra fra Oriente e Occidente

A study that re-examines Roman Mithraism through epigraphic evidence and comparative analysis, exploring its links with Orphism, Platonism, and Iranian traditions, and presenting the cult of Mithras as a solar path of individual spiritual awakening between East and West…

 
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Iranian Leviathan. A Monumental History of Mithra’s Abode

A philosophical study of Iranian civilization that explores its spiritual foundations, including the legacy of Mithraic and Zoroastrian traditions, in order to reflect on Iran’s historical continuity and civilizational meaning.

 
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Mémoire sur un bas-relief mithriaque, qui a été découvert à Vienne (Isère)

Memoir by Félix Lajard analysing a Mithraic bas-relief discovered in Vienne in 1830. Based on direct examination of the fragments and their context, the study corrects an earlier misidentification and documents a rare lion-headed figure within a probable mithraeum…

 
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La via della realizzazione di sé secondo i Misteri di Mithra

Interprets Mithraism as an initiatory path of inner transformation, reading its myths and rites as symbolic maps of consciousness rather than as historical narratives, and includes an appendix with the Ritual of Mithra from the Great Magical Papyrus of Paris…

 
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Mithréum d’Angers

The Mithraeum of Angers, excavated during a preventive operation and subsequently dismantled in 2010, yielded numerous objects, including coins, oil lamps, and a ceramic vessel bearing a votive inscription to the invincible god Mithras.

 
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Altar of Kalkar

This altar found at ancient Burginatum is the northernmost in situ Mithraic find on the continent.

 
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Flavius Aper altar (CIMRM 1584)

The altar of Ptuj depicts Mithras and Sol on the front and the water miracle on the right side.

 
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Justin Martyr: Mithras as a demonic imitation of Christ

In these two key passages, Justin Martyr interprets Mithraic rituals and myths as demonic parodies of Christ’s incarnation, the Eucharist, and biblical revelation.

 
Monumentum

Mitreo di Sutri

The Mithraeum of Sutri was built inside a rocky hill that also hosted the Roman theatre of the city.

 
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CIMRM 2196 & 2197

White marble relief depicting Mithras as bull-slayer in a grotto from the Froehner collection, now in the Cabinet des Médailles, Paris.

 
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Gregory of Nazianzus on rites, tortures and orgies

A series of polemical passages in which a leading fourth-century Christian theologian presents the cult of Mithras as a religion defined by cruelty, bodily suffering, and shameful initiation rites.

 
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Bodobrica

Vicus Baudobriga was a Roman settlement on the left bank of the Rhine, founded during the conquest of Gaul. Its development reflects the Rhine’s shifting role as frontier, trade route, and fortified border before Roman withdrawal.

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