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…

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

Legate of the Legion II Adiutrix, stationed in Aquincum.

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.

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

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…

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.

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.

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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.

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

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

TNMM403 – CIMRM 1773

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

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

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

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