The New Mithraeum Database

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…

A certain Blastia or Blastianus made a dedication to Mithras and Silvanus on an altar in Emona, Pannonia.

TNMM635 – CIMRM 1463

This altar found at ancient Burginatum is the northernmost in situ Mithraic find on the continent.

TNMM507

In the altar that Titus Tettius Plotus dedicated to the invincible God, he called himself pater sacrorum.

TNMM634 – CIMRM 2252

Legate of the Legion II Adiutrix, stationed in Aquincum.

Another sculpture of Mithras rock-birth from the Mithraeum of Victorinus, in Aquincum.

TNMM478 – CIMRM 1756

This stone in basso relief of Mithras killing the bull was found 10 foot underground in Micklegate York in 1747.

TNMM246 – CIMRM 835

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

This limestone altar dedicated to Mithras by a certain Veturius Dubitatus was found in Dalj, Croatia, in 1910.

TNMM751 – CIMRM 1635

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…

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…

This limestone relief of Mithras killing the bull bears an inscription by a certain Flavius Horimos, consecrated in a 'secret forest' in Moesia.

TNMM641 – CIMRM 2306, 2307

Mithras and Sol share a sacred meal accompanied by Cautes and Cautopates on a relief found in a cemetery from Croatia.

TNMM304

This small bronze tabula ansata was dedicated to Mithras by two brothers, probably not related by blood.

TNMM397 – CIMRM 1477

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

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

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

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

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

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