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The New Mithraeum Database

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Locus

Arba (Rab)

The island settlement of Arba occupied a strategic position along the eastern Adriatic maritime routes.

Monumentum

Inscription of Octavius Geminus from Rab

Altar found at Rab, ancient Arba in Dalmatia, in 1867, bearing a dedication to Invicto by Octavius Geminus; the Mithraic attribution is uncertain.

Provincia

Arabia

Arabia connected the Roman Near East to caravan routes, desert frontiers and the commercial networks of the southern Levant.

Locus

Trapezus (Trabzon)

Trabzon is a historic city on the Black Sea coast of northeastern Turkey, founded in 756 BC as Trapezous by Greek colonists from Miletus. It passed from Achaemenid control to the Kingdom of Pontus, then became part of the Roman and Byzantine empires.

Locus

Scarabantia (Sopron)

Scarabantia became one of the principal urban centres of western Pannonia near the Amber Road.

Monumentum

Mithraic inscription from Rome

Epigraphic testimony catalogued in the Année Épigraphique and Lugli’s Fontes for ancient Rome.

Monumentum

Deo Soli stone from Sicca

Small stone block inscribed to Deo Soli, found walled up in an Arabic wall near a Roman spring at Sicca Veneria (modern Kef).

Liber

Soma. Divine Mushroom of Immortality

Wasson has aroused considerable attention by advancing and documenting the thesis that Soma was a hallucinogenic mushroom – none other than the Amanita muscaria, the fly-agaric that until recent times was the center of shamanic rites among the Siberian and Uralic tribesmen…

Monumentum

Domus del Mitreo of Tarquinia

The discovery of the Mithraeum of Tarquinia is due to the Department for Protection of Cultural Heritage of the Carabinieri, who noticed some clandestine excavations near the Ara della Regina.

Notitia

Carabinieri recover a Mithras Tauroctony about to be sold on the black market

The Mithriac votive sculpture comes from a clandestine excavation in the Tarquinia area. The criminal chain is active in archaeological areas of Rome and southern Etruria.

Socius

Fariba Darabimanesh

independent research related to Mithraism

Locus

Sucidava (Corabia)

Sucidava stood on the lower Danube frontier and formed part of the defensive network of late antique Dacia.

Monumentum

Fragmentary closing formula from Sopron

Marble inscription fragment from the Mithraeum at Sopron, ancient Scarabantia, preserving only the closing votive formula.

Monumentum

Cautopates statuette from Sopron

Marble statuette of Cautopates from the Mithraeum at Sopron, ancient Scarabantia, in Phrygian cap and Oriental dress, holding the torch downwards; the head is lost.

Monumentum

Cautes statuette from Sopron

Marble statuette of Cautes from the Mithraeum at Sopron, ancient Scarabantia, in Phrygian cap and Oriental dress, holding the upraised torch with both hands; the head is lost.

Monumentum

Altar of Caius Valerius Respectus from Sopron

Inscription from the Mithraeum at Sopron, ancient Scarabantia, dedicated to Deo Soli invicto Mithrae by Caius Valerius Respectus, IIIIvir Augustalis of the Colonia Scarabantiensis.

Monumentum

Third tauroctony relief from Sopron

Marble tauroctony relief from the Mithraeum at Sopron, ancient Scarabantia, depicting the standard bull-slaying scene with raven, dog, serpent, scorpion, and torchbearers.

Monumentum

Second tauroctony relief from Sopron

Marble tauroctony relief from the Mithraeum at Sopron, ancient Scarabantia, depicting the standard bull-slaying with raven, dog, scorpion, and cross-legged torchbearers.

Monumentum

Altar of an Augustalis from Sopron

Marble inscription fragment from the Mithraeum at Sopron, ancient Scarabantia, recording a dedication to Deo invicto Mithrae by an Augustalis.

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