The New Mithraeum Database

Lifelong pater of Mithras in Anazarbus, holding the civic title Father of the Homeland.

The Mithraic nature of the frescoes of Oea, according to the scholars Cumont and Vermaseren, is now questioned.

Senator, imperial legate and commander from Poetovio, whose dedications to Mithras link the Danubian and African diffusion of the cult.

Dedicator of a rare altar jointly honouring Mithras and Silvanus at Emona, whose ambiguous name has fuelled debate over whether the dedicant was a man or a woman.

Known from a disputed inscription discovered near Mediolanum, she has been tentatively linked to a Mithraic dedication, although the interpretation remains controversial.

Occupant of a richly decorated tomb at Oea once interpreted as evidence for female Mithraic initiation.

Rural slave devoted to Mithras on an estate near Valentia during the later second century CE.

Garlic merchant and devotee of Cautes whose dedication at Can Modolell reflects the integration of Mithraic worship into the commercial life of Roman Tarraconensis.

Known from a dedication to Dominus Invictus in Malaca, he may represent an early and uncertain witness to Mithraism in Baetica.

Imperial slave attested at the sanctuary of Can Modolell, a site closely associated with the early spread of Mithraism in Hispania.

A Mithraic worshipper whose offering reveals a pater patrum and leonine initiates in northern Hispania.

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

Member of the Mithraic congregation of Emerita Augusta who commissioned a monumental torchbearer statue under Accius Hedychrus.

This lost monument from Malaga, Spain, to Dominus Invictus has been linked to the cult of Mithras, although there is not enough evidence.

A Mithraic worshipper whose dedication to Cautes preserves a distinctive epigraphic tradition associated with the coastal communities of north-eastern Hispania.

Gaius Accius Hedychrus was one of the most prominent Mithraists known from Roman Hispania and a central figure in the Mithraic community of Emerita Augusta during the mid-second century CE.

Severan governor and commander of Legio VII Gemina, associated with the religious milieu that fostered the rise of Mithraic communities in north-western Hispania.

Centurion of Legio VII Gemina Antoniniana who dedicated an altar to Mithras at Locus, honouring his freedmen Victorius Secundus and Victorius Victor.

One of the freedmen of Gaius Victorius Victorinus named in the dedication of the Mithraeum of Lugo.

One of the freedmen of Gaius Victorius Victorinus named in the dedication of the Mithraeum of Lugo.