The New Mithraeum Database

This is one of the two torchbearers, probably Cautes, transformed into Paris, now in the British Museum.

Franz Cumont bought this relief of Mithras as a bullkiller from a dealer who claimed to have found it in a vineyard near the church of Saint Pancrace, in 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.

A marble dedication tablet found in the Vigna Curtii Palloni outside the Porta Sant'Agnese near the Praetorian Camp in Rome, recording the construction of a sacrarium dedicated to Sol Invictus by Q. Pompeius Primigenius, pater and sacerdos, under Septimius Severus and Caracalla…

Two tauroctony statues formerly at the Villa del Grande near the Porta Maggiore in Rome, both lacking the upper part of Mithras and the bull's head.

Bithynia and Pontus preserve important evidence for the diffusion of Mithraic cults across the Black Sea and northwestern Anatolia.

The Mithraeum near Porta Romana was connected to a Sacello, but the door was blocked.

The Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres (Sette Sfere) is of great importance for the understanding of the cult, because of its black-and-white mosaics depicting the planets, the zodiac and related elements.

Verona was an important Roman city in northern Italy.

Glanum was an important Roman town in Narbonensis near modern Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.

Vesontio was an important urban centre of Roman Gaul, today Besançon.

Plevna occupies an important position in the lower Danube hinterland historically connected with Roman Moesia.

Troesmis served as an important military and administrative centre on the lower Danube frontier.

The island of Thasos occupied an important position in the northern Aegean maritime network.

Teurnia became an important late Roman urban centre in the province of Noricum.

Tabernae became an important settlement and production centre in the Rhine frontier region.

Solicinium occupied an important position within the frontier region of southwestern Germania.

Saifnitz occupied a position near important Alpine crossing routes between Italy and Noricum.

Philippi became an important Roman colony in eastern Macedonia along the Via Egnatia.

Pautalia became an important urban and thermal centre in the southwestern Balkans.