The New Mithraeum Database

Liber

Cultores Mithrae. Die Anhangerschaft Des Mithras-Kultes (1992)

The starting point of this study of the initiation into the cult of Mithras are the 462 sites where traces of the cult have been found to date. They form the framework of the study.

Liber

The Roman Cult of Mithras. The God and His Mysteries (1990)

Manfred Clauss's introduction to the Roman Mithras cult has become widely accepted as the most reliable and readable account of this fascinating subject.

Liber

Roman Mithraism: the Evidence of the Small Finds (2021)

Papers of the international conference "Roman Mithraism: the Evidence of the Small Finds". Tienen 7-8 November 2001.

Syndexios

Blastia

Blastia dedicated an altar to Mithras and Silvanus in Emona.

Liber

Études Mithriaques. Actes du 2e Congrès International, Téhéran, du 1er au 8 septembre 1975 (1978)

Actes du 2e Congrès International, Téhéran, du 1er au 8 septembre 1975. (Actes du Congrès, 4). Éditions Brill, collection. Acta Iranica.

Mithraeum

Mithraeum of Virunum

A bronze plaque records the existence of a mithraeum at Virunum that collapsed and was rebuilt by members of the community.

TNMM401

Syndexios

Flavius Septimius Zosimus

Vir perfectissimus and priest of Zeus Brontes and Hecate, he erected a mithraeum in Rome.

Syndexios

Mercatorius Castrensis

Offered the famous Tauroctony of Osterburken to the unconquerable sun god Mithras.

Notitia

The Mirror of Mithras

Over the last century or so, a great deal has been said about the god Mithras and his mysteries, which became known to the European world mainly through his Roman cultus during the Imperial Period.

Monumentum

Tauroctony of Gérman

This very fine relief of Mithras killing the bull was discovered in 2014 in Germán, near Sofia, Bulgaria, and is now housed in the Sofia History Museum.

TNMM795

Mithraeum

Mithraeum of Sofia

The Mithraeum of Serdica was found in the fortified area of the ancient city of Serdica, now Sofia, Bulgaria.

TNMM56

Monumentum

Altar of Benifayó

This altar found in Benifaió, València, was erected by a slave called Lucanus.

TNMM528 – CIMRM 807

Invicto / Mithrae / Lucanus / Ser(vus).

Monumentum

Altar of Aquileia to the brave god Mithras

This altar to Mithras found in Aquilieia mentions several persons of a same community.

TNMM497 – CIMRM 741

Deo f(orti) i(nvicto) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / P. Aelius / Mercur(ialis) / Q. Tessig/nius Maxi/mia(nus) patr(es) / pros(esedente) T(ito) Aur(elio) / Victore v(otum) s(olverunt) l(ibentes) m(erito).

Mithraeum

Mitreo dell’Esquilino

In a house from the time of Constantine, a Lararium was found with a statue of Isis-Fortuna. The Mithraeum was a door next to it, on a lower room.

TNMM83 – CIMRM 356

Monumentum

Inscription of Tarragona

This fragment of the base of a statue from Tarragona, Spain, bears an inscription which appears to be dedicated to the invincible Mithras.

TNMM743 – CIMRM 806

[--- Invi]cto Mithra[e]….

Monumentum

Heliodromus inscription of Cerveteri

This inscription by a certain Memmius Placidus is the first ever found signed by a Heliodromus.

TNMM512

[Deo Soli Invic]/[to Mi]thrae / [Mem]mius Pla/cidus helio/dromus sacr/atus a Curtio / Iuvenale patre / votum [solvit] / [libens merito].

Monumentum

Album of Sentinum

This inscription reveals the names of 36 cultori of Sentinum, one of whom bears the title of pater leonum.

TNMM570 – CIMRM 688

Cultores D(ei) S(olis) I(nvicti) Mithrae / patroni, prosedente C. Propertio Profuturo. Coiedius Proculus / Ligurius Theodotus / Mussius Vindex / Coiedius Hilarianus / Sentin(as) pater leonum Ianuar…

Mithraeum

Mithraeum of Perge

The Mithraeum of Pamphylia was cut back into the rock to form a cave, with a separate relief of Mithras killing the bull.

TNMM508

Monumentum

Goblet of Angers

The spherical ceramic cup found at the Mithraeum in Angers bears an inscription to the unconquered god Mithras.

TNMM452

---]M [---]Deo[ inuic]to Mytrh[ae ]s Genialis ciues Ambian[in]us (or Ambian[ic]us) exuoto d[edit frat]ribus, omni loco, [ N]ama!