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The New Mithraeum Database

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Locus

Tropaeum Traiani (Adamclisi)

Tropaeum Traiani became famous for the monumental complex commemorating Trajan’s victories in the lower Danube region.

Monumentum

Candelabrum of Doryphorus

This magnificent candelabrum was found in Rome in 1803, in the Syrian Temple of Janicule.

Monumentum

Mitreo di Santa Prisca

The Mithraeum of Santa Prisca houses remarkable frescoes showing the initiates in procession.

Monumentum

Painted tauroctony from Rome

This unusual mural depicting Mithras killing the bull was found near the Colosseum in 1668.

Monumentum

Mithraeum of Colchester

One of the rooms in a sustantive masonry building in Hollytrees Meadow was considered to be a Mithreum, a theory that has now been discarded.

Monumentum

Cult objects from Konjic

Finds from the Mithraeum at Konjic, Dalmatia, comprising a large roof nail, fragments of a concentric-circle basin, pottery, glass, animal bones, 32 coins from Gallienus to Constantine, and a pine apple.

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief fragment from Zsámbék

Fragment of a Mithras relief from Zsámbék near Aquincum, Pannonia Inferior, showing seven altars alternated with trees — a processional or decorative border rather than a main tauroctony scene.

Monumentum

Altar of Lucius Annius Serecinus from Poljčane

Marble altar from Poljčane between Celje and Maribor, Pannonia Superior, dedicated to Deo invicto Mithrae by Lucius Annius Serecinus for the welfare of his grandson Lucius Annius Verus — a rare three-generation Mithraic dedication.

Monumentum

Mithraeum at Pohanica

Small Mithraic sanctuary found in the slope of a ravine called Zlodjer (Devil's Ditch) at Ober-Pohanica near Zdole, Noricum; the finds are among the finest marble Mithraic sculpture from the eastern Alpine provinces.

Monumentum

Altar of Mocio Aprilis from Schlatten

Small two-fragment altar walled into the church at Schlatten near Rosenbach, Noricum, dedicated to Deo invicto Mithrae by Mocio Aprilis.

Monumentum

Cult objects and pottery from Königshoffen

Assemblage of cult objects from the Mithraeum at Königshoffen including painted lamps, glass and terra-sigillata fragments with potters' stamps and graffiti (including Deo invicto Mithrae), two iron bells, an iron shield-knob, and stone fragments.

Monumentum

Tauroctony from the Mitreo delle terme di Mitra

The person who commanded the sculpture may have been M. Umbilius Criton, documented in the Mitreo della Planta Pedis.

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief from Vadas

Large tauroctony plate with pediment from Vadas, Pannonia Inferior, formerly in the hunting lodge of the Jankovich estate, demolished in 1907; now lost.

Monumentum

Cult objects and coins from Mithraeum III, Heddernheim

Assemblage of lamps, keys, torches, an iron knife, pottery, glass fragments, and five coins from Mithraeum III at Heddernheim, ancient Nida

Monumentum

Foundation deposits from the Mithraeum of Friedberg

Ritual coin deposits beneath sanctuary bases helping date the Mithraeum to the late second century A.D.

Monumentum

Ritual finds from the Mithraeum of Durnomagus

Assemblage of altars, lamps, coins and ritual objects discovered in the sanctuary.

Monumentum

Mithraea of Heddernheim

Since 1826, four mithraea have been found at Nida-Heddernheim.

Locus

Emona (Ljubljana)

Emona or Aemona was a Roman castrum, located in the area where the navigable Nauportus River came closest to Castle Hill, serving the trade between the city’s settlers – colonists from the northern part of Roman Italy – and the rest of the empire.

Provincia

Dacia superior

Dacia superior formed part of one of the most intensely Mithraic frontier regions of the Roman empire after the conquest of Trajan.

Syndexios

Alcimus

Slave and vilicus in the household of Tiberius Claudius Livianus, linked to the earliest known Mithraic tauroctony.

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