The New Mithraeum Database

Rock-crystal gem in the Cabinet des Médailles, Paris, depicting Mithras as bull-slayer with the standard iconographic programme.

Fragment of a white marble statue of Mithras tauroktonos with dog, serpent and scorpion, upper body and right leg missing, found at Praeneste (modern Palestrina).

Member of the Mithraic community of Les Bolards and dedicator of a statue of Cautes.

From the late first century CE, Mithras spread across the Roman Empire, leaving more than 130 sanctuaries and nearly 1,000 inscriptions. This volume offers a rigorous synthesis that renews our understanding of this enigmatic cult.

A historical novel framed as the memoir of a Brittano-Roman soldier witnessing the end of Roman Britain. It explores identity, loyalty, and survival at the twilight of empire.

Francesco Massa examines how the concept of mysteria was transformed in the Roman Empire, as Christian authors from the mid-second century CE adopted the language of mysteries to articulate their own rituals and beliefs, reshaping understandings of both Christian and traditional cults…

White marble relief depicting Mithras as bull-slayer in a grotto from the Froehner collection, now in the Cabinet des Médailles, Paris.

Dans un VIIIᵉ siècle uchronique où Mithra est devenu le dieu officiel de Rome, Rachel Tanner imagine un empire impitoyable, déchiré entre révoltes barbares, intrigues politiques et résistances occultes, porté par une fresque de fantasy historique d’une intensité rare…