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The New Mithraeum Database

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Lucius Caecilius Optatus

Tribune of the first cohort of Vardulli, he erected a mithraeum with his fellows in Brementium.

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Gaius Lucretius Menander

Pater of the Mithraeum of Ostia which bears his name.

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Volusius Irenaeus

Dedicated a statue of Arimanius in Eboracum, now in the Yorkshire Museum.

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Hyacinthus

Hyacinthus, like Hermadio, seems to have been one of the profets of Mithraism in the Dacian region.

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Flavius Aper

Commander of the Macedonian legions V and XIII Gemina Galliens.

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Marcus Antonius Victorinus

A powerful and wealthy man, founder of a mithraeum in the city of Aquincum of which he was the mayor.

 
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Intaglio with Mithras and Abraxas at the Walters Art Museum

This unusual piece depicts Mithras slaying the bull on one side and the Gnostic god Abraxas on the other.

 
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Bronze medallion from Gordian III with tauroctony

The bronze medallion, from Cilicia, shows Mithras Tauroctonus on the revers.

 
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Lion from Les Bolards

A limestone lion holding a flowing urn, discovered at the entrance of the Mithraeum of Les Bolards, reflects the ritual significance of water within the cult of Mithras.

 
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Dossier Mithra. La alternativa espiritual del culto legionario

A selection of texts gathered by Ernesto Milá that reinterprets Mithraism as an initiatory, solar, and heroic cult. It includes the so-called Great Magical Papyrus of Paris, translated and commented by Julius Evola and the Ur Group.

 
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A Man of the Gods and Mysteries. On Vettius Agorius Praetextatus

At Rome’s twilight, amid political upheaval and Christian ascendancy, Vettius Agorius Praetextatus embodied pagan intellect, virtue, and authority across senatorial, military, and mystical spheres.

 
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Mithraeum of Fertőrákos

The temple of Mithras in Fertorakos was constructed by soldiers from the Carnuntum legion at the beginning of the 3rd century AD.

 
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Philosophy as a Rite of Rebirth. From Ancient Egypt to Neoplatonism

Algis Uždavinys presents philosophy as a sacred practice of inner rebirth, rooted in ancient Egyptian and traditional wisdom rather than a purely rational discipline.

 
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Inscription of Santi Marcellino e Pietro al Laterano

This inscription mentions a Pater for the first known time.

 
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The Golden Chain of Initiation: Orphism, Eleusis, and Mystagogy—A Reinterpretation

By reading Orphic theology together with Eleusinian ritual practice, the mysteries emerge as a structured mystagogy of transformation: a disciplined passage from forgetfulness (Lethe) to knowledge (aletheia), from mortality to participation in the divine.

 
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Mithraeum at Santa Maria Capua Vetere. Revisited in February 2026

This article revisits the Mithraeum of S. Maria Capua Vetere, one of the most complete and artistically refined Mithraic sanctuaries in the Campanian region, situating it within its archaeological, iconographic, and ritual-historical contexts.

 
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Novae

Novae was initially one of the few great Roman legionary fortresses along the empire’s border, forming part of the defences along the Danube in northern Bulgaria. It lies about 4 km east of the modern town of Svishtov.

 
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Altar of Inveresk with a griffin

This second altar discovered to date near Inveresk includes several elements unusual in Mithraic worship.

 
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I Misteri del Sole. Il culto di Mithra nell’Italia Antica

A study of Roman Mithraism that combines historical evidence with a symbol-centred interpretive approach, exploring Mithraic iconography, ritual experience, and the cult’s encounter with Christianity in the Late Empire.

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