The New Mithraeum Database

Roman emperor, son of the emperor and Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius.

Syndexios in Ostia, his name Marsus suggests that he was a snake-charmer.

Clarissimus knight and legate born in Poetovio that helped to disseminate the cult of Mithras in the African provinces.

Euhemerus was a Greek or Greco-Oriental man of modest status.

Freedman, Pater, priest and antistes.

Administrator, probably a slave of Pater Alfius Severus, who dedicated the main altar of the Mitreo di Marino.

Paid for walls of the Mithraeum III of Carnuntum, Pannonia.

Bearer of the imperial standard of Legio XIII Gemina.

Commander of the Macedonian legions V and XIII Gemina Galliens.

Pater leonum and public freedman of Sentinum.

Of Semitic origin, Absalmos has dedicated a tauroctonic relief to Mithras in ancient Syria.

Latin writer, Platonic philosopher and rhetorician.

Pro praetor legate during the reign of Maxime, he dedicated an altar to Mithras in Lambaesis.

Tribune of the first cohort of Vardulli, he erected a mithraeum with his fellows in Brementium.

Hector erected an altar to Mithras in Emerita Augusta by means of a ‘divine vision’.

This rock-cut Mithraeum occupies the north-eastern slope of the Grand-Rebberg at Saarburg, featuring a stepped entrance, a sloping central aisle, lateral benches, and a spring-fed water conduit.

Veteran of the Legio VIII Augusta

The Mithraeum I in Stockstadt contained images of Mithras but also of Mercury, Hercules, Diana and Epona, among others.

The marble altar mentions Vettius Agrorius Praetextatus as Pater Sacrorum and Patrum and his wife Aconia Fabia Paulina.

The Hekataion of Sidon, which depicts Hekate in her trimorphic form surrounded by three dancing girls, is the only example found to date in connection with the Mithraic cult.