The New Mithraeum Database

Scholar, politician and a court astrologer to the Roman emperors Claudius, Nero and Vespasian.

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

Frontinianus and Fronto built a Mithraeum in Budaors, probably on their own property.

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

Paid for walls of the Mithraeum III of Carnuntum, Pannonia.

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

Settlement of prehistoric origin that developed into the Roman Vicus Vetonianus, modern Dieburg, incorporated into the civitas Auderiensium in Germania Superior and attested as an active centre during the Roman period.

Intecisa was a military camp and town located in the Roman Province of Pannonia, now known as Dunaújváros, bordering Western Hungary.

Aquincum was an ancient city, situated on the northeastern borders of the province of Pannonia within the Roman Empire.

In his first book, Fahim Ennouhi sheds light on the cult of Mithras in Roman Africa. A marginal and elitist phenomenon, confined to restricted circles and largely absent from local religious dynamics, yet revealing.

Passage from Plutarch’s Life of Pompey, recounting the rise, power, and insolence of the Cilician pirates before Pompey’s campaign to suppress them.

The Mithraeum of Els Munts, near Tarragona, is one of the largest known to date.

This altar is dedicated to the god Sol Invictus Mithras by a certain Florus, a veteran of the Legio III Augusta.

The relief of Mithras killing the bull, found near Zvornik in Bosnia and Herzegovina, features some variations on the usual scene.

The remains of the mithraic triptic of Tróia, Lusitania, were part of a bigger composition.

This unusual mosaic representation of the god Silvanus was found in the Mithreaum of the so-called Imperial Palace in Ostia.