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The New Mithraeum Database

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Syndexios

Nero

Roman emperor whose ceremonial reception of Tiridates I of Armenia established one of the earliest recorded links between Mithras and the Roman imperial court.

Syndexios

Commodus

Roman emperor traditionally regarded as the first ruler initiated into the Mysteries of Mithras.

Syndexios

Alfius Severus

Alfius Severus was a prominent figure associated with the Mithraeum of Marino, probably acting as pater of a small Mithraic community connected with the nearby peperino stone quarries.

Locus

Cibinium (Sibiu)

Roman settlement of Dacia superior located in the area of present-day Sibiu in Romania. The site became an important urban and military centre, later developed into the medieval city known as Hermannstadt in German and Nagyszeben in Hungarian.

Monumentum

Tauroctony lower right from Oltenia

Right lower corner of a marble tauroctony relief from Oltenia, Dacia, preserving the lower portion of Mithras killing the bull.

Monumentum

Mithras head of Walbrook

The Mithras's head of Walbrook probable belonged to a life-size scene of the god scarifying the bull.

Monumentum

Mithras rock-birth of Trier

The relief depicts the birth of Mithras, holding a globe, surrounded by the zodiac.

Monumentum

Altar with Sol’s head from Altbachtal

This stone altar fround in Altbachtal bears an inscription by a certain Martius Martialis.

Monumentum

Serapis head from Mérida

This head of Serapis from Cerro de San Albín may be unrelated to Mithras worship.

Monumentum

Inscription of two Gessii from Sentinum

Gessius Castus and Gessius Severus have placed a decorated stutue and left testimony on this inscription below.

Monumentum

Sculpted head from Florentia

Head formerly associated with Mithraic material but interpreted by Margarete Bieber as a dying Giant.

Monumentum

Marble altar to Sol Invictus Mithras from Via Venti Settembre, Rome

A marble altar found in 1873 between the Baths of Diocletian and the Via di Porta Pia in Rome, dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras by Sextus with Titus Flavius Ianuarius as antistes.

Monumentum

Inscription of Aelius Victorinus the veteran, outside Porta Pia, Rome

An inscription to Sol Invictus Mithras found in the Vigna Patritii outside the Porta Pia in Rome, dedicated by Aelius Victorinus, a veteran of the emperors honourably discharged, with M. Aurelius Romulus as antistes and sacerdos of the cult.

Monumentum

Mithraic relief from Rome

Roman Mithraic relief illustrated in figure 171 of Vermaseren’s catalogue.

Monumentum

Greek inscription of Balbillus from Rome

Greek inscription dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras by Balbillus, saved from the waters, in the presence of Bassus the priest, belonging to the Mithraic grade of Leo.

Monumentum

Big limestone jar with Mithraic graffito from room Z, S. Prisca Mithraeum, Rome

Large limestone jar from room Z of the S. Prisca Mithraeum, fitted with a small cylindrical vase and a lid bearing the graffito "Te cauterio i Saturne i Ata[r i] Opi".

Monumentum

Tauroctony from Santa Prisca

Even if only a few fragments remain, it is very likely that the main niche of the Mitreo di Santa Prisca contained the usual representation of Mithras killing the bull.

Monumentum

Oceanus-Saturn of Santa Prisca

The fragmented tauroctony of the Mitreo di Santa Prisca rests on the naked figure of a bearded man, probably Ocean or Saturn.

Monumentum

Marble base CIL VI 846 dedicated to Sol by C. Ruf. Volusianus, Aventine, Rome

Marble base found in 1764 on the Aventine with a dedication to Sol by C. Rufus Volusianus, vir clarissimus, who held the offices of pater, hierophant, prophet of Isis and pontifex of the Sun, dated to the 4th century A.D.

Monumentum

Probable Mithraeum on the Aventine between S. Saba and Via Salvator, Rome

Roman building on the Aventine between the eastern side of S. Saba and Via Salvator, probably used as a Mithraeum at the end of the 4th century, with a long corridor bearing three semicircular niches and a large external basin.

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