The New Mithraeum Database

In his first book, Fahim Ennouhi sheds light on the cult of Mithras in Roman Africa. A marginal and elitist phenomenon, confined to restricted circles and largely absent from local religious dynamics, yet revealing.

This graffito seems to be an account of offerings made by Mithras worshippers in the Cassegiato di Diana.

Small marble head probably of Mithras tauroctonus from Leptis Magna, now Khoms.

An inscription mentioning a speleum decorated by Publilius Ceionius suggests the location of a mithraeum in Cirta, the capital of Numidia.

Interview avec Fahim Ennouhi à l’occasion de la publication de son premier livre, Le culte de Mithra en Afrique du Nord antique, consacré à cette présence restée élitiste et marginale dans cette région de l’Empire.

Acclaimed esoteric scholar @peter.mark.adams talks about his latest book, ‘Ritual and Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras’, interviewed by professor, writer and host of The New Mithraeum podcast @andreu.abuin.

Saul cutting the oxen to pieces poses as Mithras Tauroctonos in this painting, which adorns the mantelpiece of Henry II’s bedroom at the Château d’Écouen near Paris.

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

Archaeologists at Doliche are now excavating houses around the vast Mithras temple to learn how people lived beside the sanctuary.

In the 1900s a model Mithraeum was built in Saalburg in the mistaken belief that there was an original temple of Mithras in an ancient Roman building.

Conversation with Peter Mark Adams on the occasion of the release of Ritual & Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras, by Theion Publishing.

Restoring the Mysteries: A Conversation with Peter Mark Adams on his new book ‘Ritual & Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras’.

Le culte de Mithra : Une religion iranienne qui se répand à Rome et dans son empire.

Philippe Roy, docteur en Sciences de l’Antiquité, présente dans cette vidéo la réception du culte de Mithra dans les provinces occidentales de l’Empire romain.

Nouveau video de Mysteria dédié au culte de Mithra à partir de l'exposition Le mystère de Mithra au Musée Saint Raymond.

The frescoes depict several figures dressed in different garments associated with the Mithraic degrees.