The New Mithraeum Database

This marble relief was found in a Mithraeum in Ptuj.

TNMM258

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…

The inscription included the names of the brotherhood, which are now lost.

TNMM619

On this slab, Gaius Iulius Propinquos indicates that he made a wall of the Mithraeum at his own expense.

TNMM493 – CIMRM 1693

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

TNMM635 – CIMRM 1463

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

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…

Legate of the Legion II Adiutrix, stationed in Aquincum.

This monument to Mithras and Cautes (or Cautopates) was erected in Carnuntum by the centurion Flavius Verecundus of Savaria.

TNMM723 – CIMRM 1671

The fraternal order that focussed on the worship of the ancient Iranian god Mithra was probably formed in Iran, Armenia, and Pontus (the southern coastal region of the Black Sea in eastern Anatolia, present-day Turkey). Travelers and colonists from theseS…

Several Mithraic scenes, including Mithras with Saturn, Mithras with Sol and Mithras' Ascension, are depicted on this fragment of a relief from Ptuj.

TNMM391 – CIMRM 1579

Cautes and Cautopates attend the birth of Mithras from the rock in the Petrogenia of the third Mithraeum of Ptuj.

TNMM204 – CIMRM 1593, 1594

The sculpture of Oceanus in Merida bears an inscription by the Pater Patrorum Gaius Accius Hedychrus.

TNMM428 – CIMRM 778, 779

The Tauroctony of Stixneusiedl was found in ancient Pannonia Superior, currently Austria.

TNMM278 – CIMRM 1658

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull of Sisak includes the zodiac and multiple scenes from the myth of Mithras.

TNMM366 – CIMRM 1472

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

Probably of Greek descent, he was active in Pannonia Superior by the 2nd century.

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.