This site uses cookies to offer you a better browsing experience.
Find out more on how we use cookies in our privacy policy.

 
 

Log in to access the full database of The New Mithraeum.

Quaere

The New Mithraeum Database

Find news, articles, monuments, persons, books and videos related to the Cult of Mithras.

Your search gave 72 results.

  • Liber

    Roman Religion in the Danubian Provinces. Space Sacralisation and Religious Communication during the Principate (1st–3rd century AD) (2022)

    The Danubian provinces represent one of the largest macro-units within the Roman Empire, with a large and rich heritage of Roman material evidence. Although the notion itself is a modern 18th-century creation, this region represents a unique area, where t…
  • Tractatus

    Thebais

    Excerpt and scholia on a passage about Mithras from Statius’ Thebaid.
  • Syndexios

    Gaius Iulius Castinus

    Legate of the Legion II Adiutrix, stationed in Aquincum.
  • Tractatus

    Discours on the doctrines and practices of the magi

    Dion Chrysostom, c. 100 A.D., a philosophical writer under the emperors Nerva and Trajan, composed a series of discourses or essays (λόγοι) on various subjects, in one of which he reports concerning the doctrines and practices of the magi.
  • Tractatus

    Hyenas or Lionesses? Mithraism and Women in the Religious World of the Late Antiquity

    In this article, Chalupa examines the scant evidence that has been found for the presence of women in the Roman cult of Mithras.
  • Liber

    The Cult of Mithras in Late Antiquity. Development, Decline and Demise ca. A.D. 270-430 (2018)

    In The Cult of Mithras in Late Antiquity David Walsh explores how the cult of Mithras developed across the 3rd and 4th centuries A.D. and why by the early 5th century the cult had completely disappeared. Contrary to the traditional narrative that the cult…
  • Liber

    The Cult of Mithras in the Roman Provinces of Gaul (1974)

    On ne saurait qu'applaudir à l'idée qu'a eue V. J. Walters de faire le point des découvertes mithriaques en Gaule romaine. Son projet reste dominé par le découpage administratif des « Roman provinces of Gaul ». Mais compte tenu de l'ensemble que ce…
  • Syndexios

    Aurelius Iustinianus

    Dux of Pannonia Prima et Noricum Ripense, he built a mithraeum in Poetovio.
  • Syndexios

    Veturius Dubitatus

    Veteran and ex duplicarius of ala I civum Romanorum who dedicated an altar to Mithras in Teutoburgium.
  • Syndexios

    Marcus Antonius Victorinus

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

    Altar of Iulius Rasci from Borovo

    This Mithraic altar of a certain Iulius Rasci or Racci was found in 1979 in a field in Borovo, Croatia, in the area of the Roman fort of Teutoburgium.

    TNMM752

    Invicto / Mitre / Iul(ius) Rasci or Racci /[—].
  • Syndexios

    Caracalla

    Emperor Caracalla ordered one of Rome’s largest temples to the god Mithras to be built in the baths bearing his name.
  • Syndexios

    Iulius Rasci

    Roman citizen who dedicated an altar to the invincible Mithras in Teutoburgium.
  • Syndexios

    Marcus Aurelius Fronto

    He and his brother, both of the Legio II Adiutrix, built a temple and erected several monuments in Budaors, Pannonia.
  • Syndexios

    Marcus Valerius Maximianus

    Clarissimus knight and legate born in Poetovio that helped to disseminate the cult of Mithras in the African provinces.
  • Monumentum

    Altar of Libella, Budapest

    The dedicant of this altar to the god Arimanius was probably a slave who held the grade of Leo.

    TNMM403 – CIMRM 1773

    Deo Arima/nio Libel/la leo / fratribus / voto dic(avit).
  • Syndexios

    Flavios Horimos

    Freedman and administrator of the country estate of a certain Flavius Macedo in Moesia.
  • Syndexios

    Straton

    The son of an eponymous person, he consecrated an altar to Helios Mithras in Kreta, Moesia inferior.
  • Syndexios

    Adiectus

    A slave of a certain Tiberius, he likely dedicated an altar to the invincible god Mithras in Carnuntum.
  • Syndexios

    Publius Aelius Nigrinus

    Priest of Mithras who dedicated an altar to Petra Genetrix in Carnuntum.
 
Back to Top