The New Mithraeum Database

Marble cippus from the Quirinal residence of Ceionius Iulianus Kamenius preserving references to his Mithraic and other priestly functions.

Five fragments of a whitish-yellow marble tauroctony from the Mithraeum at Sarmizegetusa, Dacia, with the central bull-slaying framed by a round border and the dagger of Mithras clearly visible.

White marble altar from Mithraeum I at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, decorated below the inscription with the dressed bust of Cautopates, a palm between two ram's heads above, and busts of Mithras on both lateral faces.

Founded on the east bank of the Tigris, Sumere is mentioned in Roman sources as a fortified settlement during the Persian campaign of Julian in 363 CE, notably by Ammianus Marcellinus.

Marble altar dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras, found in Rome (in aedibus Maffaeiorum), set up in 183 A.D. by M. Ulpius Maximus, praepositus tabellariorum, together with its ornaments and Mithraic insignia, in fulfilment of a vow.

This marble relief bears an inscription by Marcus Modius Agatho, who dedicated several monuments to Mithras on the Caelian Hill in Rome.

This plaque from Carsulae, in Umbria, refers to the creation of a leonteum erected by the lions at their own expense.

The text mentions a certain Kamerios, described as immaculate miles.

The spherical ceramic cup found at the Mithraeum in Angers bears an inscription to the unconquered god Mithras.

A certain Maximus from the Legio IV Scythica engraved his name in one of the columns of the Mithraeum of Dura Europos.

This monument is the only one still available from the disappeared Mithraeum in Piazza S. Silvestro in Capite.

The bronze bears the dedication of a restoration of a Mithraeum carried out in 183.

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Quaestiones veteris et novi testamenti, 113.11. Ambrosiaster, 5th cent.

This inscription found in the Mithraeum Aldobrandini informs us of certain restorations carried out in the temple during a second phase of development.

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This altar dedicated to the Invincible Sol Mithra was found in 1878 in a cemetery in Alba Iulia.

This relief of Mithras slaying the bull was erected in Piazza del Campidoglio, moved to Villa Borghese and is now in the Louvre Museum.

The concluding book of Apuleius’ Golden Ass (or Metamorphoses), where Lucius, the story’s protagonist, undergoes initiation into the mysteries of Isis and Osiris.