The New Mithraeum Database

The Danubian provinces represent one of the largest macro-units within the Roman Empire, with a large and rich heritage of Roman material evidence. Although the notion itself is a modern 18th-century creation, this region represents a unique area, where t…

Freedman and administrator of the country estate of a certain Flavius Macedo in Moesia.

The fraternal order that focussed on the worship of the ancient Iranian god Mithra was probably formed in Iran, Armenia, and Pontus (the southern coastal region of the Black Sea in eastern Anatolia, present-day Turkey). Travelers and colonists from theseS…

The son of an eponymous person, he consecrated an altar to Helios Mithras in Kreta, Moesia inferior.

An imperial slave and customs officer in Illyria, he built a temple to Mithras in Moesia.

Between the 1st and 4th centuries, Mithraism developed throughout the Roman world. Much material exists, but textual evidence is scarce. The only ancient work that fills this gap is Porphyry’s intense and complex essay.

Solder of the Legio II Augusta who dedicated a monument to Mithras Invictus in Isca.

Procurator of Tarraconensis, he dedicated a monument to the Invincible God, Isis and Serapis in Asturica Augusta.

Priest of Mithras who dedicated an altar to Petra Genetrix in Carnuntum.

Dux of Pannonia Prima et Noricum Ripense, he built a mithraeum in Poetovio.

Scholar, politician and a court astrologer to the Roman emperors Claudius, Nero and Vespasian.

Probably of Greek descent, he was active in Pannonia Superior by the 2nd century.

Coin of Istrus, Moesia Inferior, showing Caracalla on one side and a god on horseback (Mithras ?) on the other.

TNMM518

The Mithraeum of Els Munts, near Tarragona, is one of the largest known to date.

TNMM31

The relief of Mithras killing the bull, found near Zvornik in Bosnia and Herzegovina, features some variations on the usual scene.

TNMM765

The vessel to burn incense from the Mithraeum of Dieburg is similar to those found in other Roman cities of Germany.

TNMM409 – CIMRM 1269

Several iron fragments found in the second mithraeum of Güglingen may have been used during mithraic ceremonies.

TNMM377

Corax Materninius Faustinus dedicated other monuments found in the same Mithraeum in Gimmeldingen.

TNMM444 – CIMRM 1319

The remains of the mithraic triptic of Tróia, Lusitania, were part of a bigger composition.

TNMM245 – CIMRM 798

This limestone relief of Mithras killing the bull bears an inscription by a certain Flavius Horimos, consecrated in a 'secret forest' in Moesia.

TNMM641 – CIMRM 2306, 2307