The New Mithraeum Database

The scholiast Lactantius Placidus comments on Statius’ passage identifying the Sun as Titan, Osiris, and Mithras, interpreting the Persian cave figure with the bull.

Marcus Statius Niger was a lion who erected an altar to Cautopates in Statio, the present-day Angera, with his brother Gaius.

This monument was erected by a certain Publius Aelius Vocco, a solider of the Legio XXII Primigenia Pia Fidelis stationed in Mainz.

Soldier of Legio XIII Gemina and strator consularis who dedicated an altar to the invincible Mithras.

Found in Illmitz, Austria, in 1959, this altar was dedicated to the unconquered god Mithras by a certain Aelius Valerianus.

This high stele by a certain Acilius Pisonianus bears an inscription commemorating the restoration of a Mithraeum in Mediolanum, today's Milan.

This inscription reveals the names of 36 cultori of Sentinum, one of whom bears the title of pater leonum.

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

Soldier of the XXII Legio Primigenia Pia Fidelis stationed in Mainz that erected an altar to Mithras in Sumelocenna.

Pater of Aquileia that devoted an altar to Mithras.

Pater of Aquileia that devoted an altar to Mithras.

Born in North Africa, he dedicated an inscription to the unconquered god Mithras, found in the Forum of Lambasis.

King of the Greco-Iranian Kingdom of Commagene.

Dedicated with his son Ursinus the double face relief of Proložac.

Dedicated with his father Ursus the double face relief of Proložac.

Pater patratus, he financed the restoration of a Mithraeum in Milan.

Public horseman and consul under the emperor Caracalla, who completed a Mithraeum in Aveia Vestina.

An inscription mentioning a speleum decorated by Publilius Ceionius suggests the location of a mithraeum in Cirta, the capital of Numidia.

This inscription, which doesn’t mention Mithras, was found near the church of Santa Balbina on the Aventine in Rome.