The New Mithraeum Database

Latium formed the political and religious centre of the Roman world where some of the most important Mithraic communities developed.

Cappadocia formed a major frontier and military region linking central Anatolia to the eastern limits of the Roman empire.

Asia formed one of the most urbanised and interconnected provinces of the eastern Roman world where Mithraic cults circulated widely.

Chersonesus occupied a northern Black Sea position where Greek, Roman and frontier cultures intersected at the edges of the Mithraic world.

Achaea preserves some of the earliest and most culturally complex evidence for Mithraic cults in the Greek-speaking eastern Mediterranean.

Moesia inferior occupied a major position along the lower Danube where Mithraic cults circulated through military and port environments.

Along the lower sectors of the middle Danube, Pannonia inferior became a major centre of Mithraic activity in the frontier provinces.

Pannonia superior preserves one of the richest frontier corpora of Mithraic evidence along the middle Danube.

Noricum formed a key link between the Alpine world and the Danubian frontier where Mithraic cults spread through military and urban environments.

Rhaetia occupied a strategic frontier position between the Alps, the upper Danube and northern Italy where Mithraic cults circulated through military networks.

Belgica occupied a strategic position between Roman Gaul, the Rhine frontier and the northern provinces where Mithraic cults circulated widely.

In Aquitania, Mithraic evidence reflects the western expansion of the cult beyond the principal Rhine and Rhône corridors.

Lugdunensis formed part of the urban and administrative core of Roman Gaul, where Mithraic cults circulated through major civic centres.

Thracia reflects the circulation of Mithraic cults through the military, urban and maritime networks linking the Balkans, the Danube and the northern Aegean world.

Cilicia preserves Mithraic evidence linked to coastal mobility, eastern Mediterranean trade and Anatolian crossroads.

Roman Sicilia preserves Mithraic evidence shaped by Mediterranean mobility and the island’s strategic position between east and west.

Mesopotamia preserves frontier evidence from the eastern limits of Roman Mithraic expansion.

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

Raetia preserves Mithraic evidence connected to Alpine frontier systems and military mobility.

Roman Dacia preserves one of the densest and most frontier-oriented bodies of Mithraic evidence in the empire.