Quaere

The New Mithraeum Database

Find news, articles, monuments, persons, books and videos related to the Cult of Mithras.

Your search gave 36 results.

Monumentum

Tauroctony of Pleven
This relief of Mithras killing the bull in a vaulted grotto lacks the usual scorpion pinching the bull's testicles.
TNMM662 – CIMRM 2257
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Târgușor
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
Ὣριμος / πατὴ/ρ ἀνέ/θηκε/ν. Φλ(άουιος) Ὣριμος Φλ(αουίου) Μακέδονος οἰκονόμος κατ᾽ ἐπιταγήν / θεῷ ἀνεικήτῳ �…
Monumentum

Inscription of Ision from Guberevac
In this monument, the imperial slave Ision claims the completion of a new temple to Mithras in Moesia.
TNMM639 – CIMRM 2235
Invicto deo / Ision Caes(aris) n(ostri) ser(vus) / vil(icus) vectigal(is) Il/lyr(ici) templ(um) omn(i) / re instruct(um) a / solo p(ecunia) s(ua) f(aciendum) c(uravit)
Syndexios

Titus Tettius Plotus
Pater Sacrorum and veteran of the Legio IV Flavia Felix.
Monumentum

Ara of the Mithraeum of Lugo
Victorius Victorious, centurion of the Legio VII, erected the altar in honour of the Lugo garrison and of the Victorius Secundus and Victor, his freedmen.
TNMM189
Deo / Inuic(to) Mithrae / G(aius) Victorius Vic/torinus (centurio) L(egionis) VII G(emina) / Antonianiae P(iae) F(elicis) / in honorem sta/tionis lucensis / et Victoriorum / Secundi et Vic/toris lib(e…
Monumentum

Inscription with Cautes and Cautopates of Steklen
An unusual feature of this very ancient relief is that Cautopates carries a cockerel upside down, while Cautes carries it right-side up.
TNMM510 – CIMRM 2268, 2269
Deo / Melichrisus / P. Caragoni / Philopalaestri
Monumentum

Lion-headed figure of Mérida
The lion-headed figure, Aion, from Mérida, wears oriental knickers fastened at the waist by a cinch strap.
TNMM241 – CIMRM 776
Monumentum

Altar of Kalkar
This altar found at ancient Burginatum is the northernmost in situ Mithraic find on the continent.
TNMM507
D(eo) I(nvicto) I(mperatori) / Ulp(ius) ( Am(---) · ( p(ater) / s(acrorum) aes · ex ius-su · ip·sius
Monumentum

Altar of Klechovtse
The limestone altar at Klechovtse in North Macedonia bears an inscription to the invincible Mithras.
TNMM414 – CIMRM 2209
[D(eo) i(nvicto)] M(ithrae) / fano mag(no) / pro sal(ute) Aug[g(ustorum)] n(ostrorum) / Apollonides / eorund(em) vect(igalis) Il/lyr(ici) ser(vus) (contra)sc(riptor) st(ationis) / Lamud(---) quam vove…
Syndexios

Melichrisus
Slave of Philopalaestrus.
Monumentum

Altar of Libella, Budapest
The dedicant of this altar to the god Arimanius was probably a slave who held the grade of Leo.
TNMM403 – CIMRM 1773
Deo Arima/nio Libel/la leo / fratribus / voto dic(avit).
Monumentum

Mithraic meal from Proložac, Croatia
Mithras and Sol share a sacred meal accompanied by Cautes and Cautopates on a relief found in a cemetery from Croatia.
TNMM304
Invicto Mithre Stati(i) ursus / et Ursinus pat(er) et fil(ius) v(otum) l(ibentes) p(osuerunt).
Monumentum

Venus of Mérida small sculpture
The lack of attributes and its decontextualisation prevent us from attributing a specific Mithraic attribution to this small Venus pudica from Mérida.
TNMM429 – CIMRM 785
Mithraeum

Mithraeum of Dunaújváros (Intercisa)
The Dunaújváros Mithraeum was discovered in 1973.
TNMM345
Monumentum

Cantharus to Deo Invicto of Trier
The cantharus of Trier is reminiscent of the crater that often appears in tauroctony scenes collecting the blood from the slaughtered animal.
TNMM404
Monumentum

Tauroctony of York
This stone in basso relief of Mithras killing the bull was found 10 foot underground in Micklegate York in 1747.
TNMM246 – CIMRM 835