The New Mithraeum Database

Fructus was the slave who paid for the erection of the Mitreo del Sabazeo in Ostia.

Offered a throne to Sol god in Ostia.

Freedman, priest and antistes in Ostia.

Patronus of the corpus lenunculariorum tabulariorum auxiliariorum Ostiensium.

Pater Patrum at Vieu (Valromey)

Probably the Pater of the Mithraeum of Ostia which bears his name.

Ernest Renan suggested that without the rise of Christianity, we might all have embraced the cult of Mithras. Nevertheless, it has had a lasting influence on secret societies, religious movements and popular culture.

Laurent Bricault has revolutionised Mithraic studies with the exhibition The Mystery of Mithras. Meet this professor in Toulouse for a fascinating look at the latest discoveries and what lies ahead.

This inscription found in the Mithraeum Aldobrandini informs us of certain restorations carried out in the temple during a second phase of development.

TNMM568 – CIMRM 233

The inscription is carved into two pieces of marble cornice.

TNMM450 – CIMRM 228

Fresco showing a scene of initiation into the mysteries of Mithras in the Mithraeum of Santa Maria Capua Vetere.

TNMM234 – CIMRM 188

Several figures related to the Mysteries of Mithras are depicted on the mosaics of the Mithraeum of the Animals.

TNMM168 – CIMRM 279

This small monument bear the inscriptions of a certain Caelius Ermeros, antistes at the Mithraeum of the Painted Walls.

TNMM583 – CIMRM 269

The Mithraeum of the House of Diana was installed in two Antonine halls, northeast corner of the House of Diana, in the late 2nd or early 3rd century.

TNMM5 – CIMRM 216

This marble of Cautes was found together with his partner Cautopates in Ostia in 1939.

TNMM657 – CIMRM 296, 297

The Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres is of great importance for the understanding of the cult, because of its black-and-white mosaics depicting the planets, the zodiac and related elements.

TNMM9 – CIMRM 239

This 3rd century marble relief of Silvanus is the only sculpture found in Mitreo Aldobrandini.

TNMM627 – CIMRM 236

A mosaic of Silvanus, dated to the time of Commodus, was found in a niche in a nearby room of the Mithraeum in the Imperial Palace at Ostia.

TNMM97 – CIMRM 250, 251

This white marble relief of Mithas killing the sacred bull was found embedded in the building of a noble family in Pisa.

TNMM604 – CIMRM 663

In the Mithraic bronze brooch found in Ostia, Cautes and Cautopates have been replaced by a nightingale and a cock.

TNMM369 – CIMRM 318