The New Mithraeum Database

The bronze bears the dedication of a restoration of a Mithraeum carried out in 183.

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.

The roman castrum was built in the 2nd century BC. During the reign of Emperor Augustus in the 1st century BC, it officially became a city and was part of the Roman colony of Colonia Iulia Parentium.

Today Lugo was the capital of the Capori tribe. It was conquered by Paullus Fabius Maximus and named Lucus Augustus in 13 BC after the positioning of a Roman military camp.

Lambaesis, Lambaisis or Lambaesa, is a Roman archaeological site in Algeria, 11 km southeast of Batna and 27 km west of Timgad, located next to the modern village of Tazoult.

Emerita Augusta was founded in 25 BC by order of the Emperor Augustus to protect a pass and a bridge over the Guadiana River. The city became the capital of the province of Lusitania and one of the most important cities in the Roman Empire.

The mithraic denarius of St. Albans dates from the 2nd century.

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

Altar for Cautopates.

This remarkable Greek marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was discovered in 1705 and remained in private collections until it was bought by the Louvre.

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

One of the three known inscriptions of Dioscorus, servant of Marci, found in Alba Iulia, Romania.

This marble monument was dedicated in Rome by the slave Fructus and his son Myro.

Aemilius Chrysanthus shares the expenses of this monument with a decurio named Limbricius Polides.

In 1852, Károly Pap, a naval captain, unearthed several Mithraic monuments in his garden at Marospartos, including this altar.

This marble plaque was made by a Pater and priest Lucius Septimius Archelaus of Mithras for him, his wife and his freedmen and freedwomen.

This inscription was commissioned by a family of priests of the invincible god Mithras.

This altar for the completion of a temple to Sol Invictus by Flavius Lucilianus was found in Fossa, Italy.

This inscription shows that Publilius Ceionius, most distinguished man, dedicated a temple to Mithras at Mila, in the modern Constantina, Algeria.

This monument bears an inscription to Mithras by a well-known general of the Roman Empire.