The New Mithraeum Database

Les Pensées pour moi-même ont été rédigées en grec par l’empereur romain Marc-Aurèle, entre 170 et 180 ap. J.C., souvent pendant ses campagnes militaires. Elles étaient à l’origine destinées à être détruites à la mort de son auteur. Mais…

He was from Aphrodisias in Caria, where he erected a relief depicting Mithras killing the bull.

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

Roman emperor, son of the emperor and Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius.

A Roman centurion investigates a ritual murder and a deadly new weapon, the Fire of Mithras, from the alleys of Lutetia to the battle of Argentoratum.

Why did the Romans worship a Persian god? This book presents a new reading of the Mithraic iconography taking into account that the cult had a prophecy.

A powerful and wealthy man, founder of a mithraeum in the city of Aquincum of which he was the mayor.

Owner of www.mithraeum.org and the Mithras and Mithraeum discussion lists on Groups.io. Co-founder of Nova Roma and the founder of Byzantium Novum.

Prefect of the First Cohort of Batavians Antoniniana.

Princeps centurio and commander (praepositus).

Fifth Roman emperor and last of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, reigning from 54 until his death in 68.

Veteran of the legion XIII and member of the Fabia tribe.

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

Pro praetor legate during the reign of Maxime, he dedicated an altar to Mithras in Lambaesis.

Passage from Plutarch’s Life of Pompey, recounting the rise, power, and insolence of the Cilician pirates before Pompey’s campaign to suppress them.

Equites and Pater at Mithraeum Santo Stefano Rotondo.

He and his brother, both of the Legio II Adiutrix, built a temple and erected several monuments in Budaors, Pannonia.

Frontinianus and Fronto built a Mithraeum in Budaors, probably on their own property.

He was a plebeian citizen who dedicated a monument to the Unconquerable Sun, Mithras.