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The New Mithraeum Database

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Regnum Bospori

The Bosporan Kingdom preserves evidence from one of the northernmost horizons of Mithraic diffusion in the ancient world.

Monumentum

Altar with donor lists from Solin

This inscribed limestone altar from Roman Salona preserves several lists of ministers associated with the Tritones collegium during the Tetrarchic period.

Monumentum

Treaty between Šuppiluliuma I and Šattiwaza of Mitanni

Late Bronze Age treaty from Ḫattuša invoking Mitra, Varuna, Indra and the Nāsatyas among the divine witnesses of the Hittite-Mitanni oath.

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Slab from the Palace of Darius at Persepolis

This plaque, located on the western staircase of the Palace of Darius, mentions the god Mithra together with Ahura Mazda as protectors of King Artaxerxes III Ochus.

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Prostrate figure fresco from Capua Vetere

Representation of a person lying prostrate on the ground between two other walking figures on the Mitreo of Santa Capua Vetere.

Syndexios

Antiochus I

King of the Greco-Iranian Kingdom of Commagene.

Syndexios

Gaius Iulius

Recipient of a votive dedication invoking the healing protection of Deus Invictus in the Mithraic community of Emerita Augusta.

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Mithraeum (?) near the Sette Sapienti

The Sacello delle Tre Navate near the Therms of the Sette Sapienti at Ostia, whose identification as a Mithraeum remains uncertain, with a decorated cult-niche but lacking typical Mithraic iconography.

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Iulium Carnicum (Zuglio)

Iulium Carnicum controlled Alpine communications routes linking northern Italy with Noricum.

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Dyrrachium (Durrës)

Dyrrachium served as one of the principal Adriatic ports linking the Balkans with Italy.

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Bumbești-Gorj (Bumbești-Jiu)

Jiu valley site associated with the defensive system linking Dacia to the southern Danubian regions.

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Boka Kotorska (Kotor)

The Bay of Kotor formed an important maritime zone linking the Adriatic coast with the inland Balkans.

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Bessapara (Pazardzhik)

Bessapara occupied an important position along the communications routes linking Thrace with the interior Balkans.

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Atrans-Trojana (Trojane)

Atrans stood near the important Alpine crossing routes linking Italy with the Danubian provinces.

Locus

Abudiacum (Epfach)

Abudiacum occupied a position along the important road network linking Raetia with the Alpine regions.

Monumentum

Double-sided limestone relief with raven and tauroctony from Val di Non

A double-sided limestone relief found near Meclo in Val di Non in 1895, now in the Museo Nazionale at Trento, with a raven and altar scene on the obverse and scenes on the reverse showing a figure attacking a kneeling Phrygian-capped person and Mithras as a bull-carrier…

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Six decorated marble columns from the Angera Mithraeum

Six small marble columns found in the Mithraeum at Angera in northern Italy: two plain-fluted, two carved with palm stems and lion's and Gorgon's heads alternating on the upper ledge, and two with serpentine coils and griffins flanking an amphora…

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Pottery fragment with lion and bull's head from Trier

A small pottery fragment of uncertain find-spot, probably from Augusta Treverorum (modern Trier) in Belgica, showing a lion walking to the right before a bull's head, with palm-like foliage, tentatively interpreted as Mithraic by Loeschcke but considered too doubtful by Vermaseren…

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Ritual vessels and iron objects from the Carrawburgh Mithraeum

Ritual vessels and iron objects from the Mithraeum at Procolitia (modern Carrawburgh), including containers for votive offerings, cups, cooking-pots, platters, mortaria and jars, and iron implements comprising an altar-shovel, thatch-hook, mounting and candlestick…

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White marble relief with bull and fig-tree from Italica

A small four-sided white marble relief of uncertain Mithraic attribution, found at Italica (modern Santiponce, near Seville), depicting a bull walking to the right on the front, a fig-tree on the back, five ears of wheat on the right side, and damaged vine tendrils with grapes on the left…

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