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The New Mithraeum Database

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Notitia

The Golden Ass: Book XI

The concluding book of Apuleius’ Golden Ass (or Metamorphoses), where Lucius, the story’s protagonist, undergoes initiation into the mysteries of Isis and Osiris.

Monumentum

Album of Sentinum

This inscription reveals the names of 36 cultori of Sentinum, one of whom bears the title of pater leonum.

Textum

Archaeological Evidence of the Cult of Mithras in Ancient Italy

PhD Thesis by Vittoria Canciani, coordinated by A. Mastrocinque. Verona, 14th April 2022.

Monumentum

Altar of Vieu

This altar was dedicated by a son to his father, one of the few Patres Patrum recorded in the western provinces.

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.

Monumentum

Mitreo di Vulci

The Mithraeum of Vulci is remarkable because of his high benches and the arches below them.

Notitia

Dazzling 'Temple of Colored Marbles' Honoring Roman God Discovered in Italy

The ancient Roman worshippers were likely in altered states of consciousness.

Monumentum

Cippus from the Mitreo delle Pareti Dipinte

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

Monumentum

Inscription of Mitreo Aldobrandini by Sextus

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

Monumentum

Graffito of the Mitreo del Caseggiato di Diana

In the cult niche of the Mitreo del Caseggiato di Diana there is a list of words that could indicate names and measurements.

Monumentum

Coin of Valerian and Sol

This coin was deposited in the upper level of the throne in the cult niche of the Mitreo della Planta Pedis.

Syndexios

Aulus Decimius Decimianus

Aulus Decimius Decimianus, son of Aulus, of the Palatina tribe.

Syndexios

Lucius Sextius Karus

His name was added to the main tauroctony sculpture of the Mitreo Fagan.

Syndexios

Lucius Florius Hermadion

Priest. He devoted an inscription found on the main altar of the Mitreo della Planta Pedis.

Syndexios

Gaius Valerius Nicomedes

Priest

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