The New Mithraeum Database

The Mithraeum of Cyrene is preserved among the remarkable ruins of the ancient capital of the Roman province of Cyrene.

Le groupe caractéristique « lion, serpent, cratère » marque le rapport avec le culte mithriaque, car comme nous croyons l’avoir montré, ce groupe ne symbolise pas la lutte des éléments, terre, eau et feu, mais la participation des animaux-attributs au sacrifice, par Mithra…

Marble head (H. 0.15), found under the threshold of the Iseum at Cyrene.

Damaged statue.

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Cyrene or Kyrene, was an ancient Greek and later Roman city near present-day Shahhat, Libya.

Marble altar at Soulan in the Pyrenees.

Roman emperor of humble origin who reunited the Empire and repelled the pressure of barbarian invasions and internal revolts.

King of the Greco-Iranian Kingdom of Commagene.

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

Hermadio's inscriptions have been found in Dacian Tibiscum and Sarmizegetusa, as well as in Rome.

He is the painter of most of the frescoes in the mithraeum of Dura Europos.

Commander of a unite of Palmyrene archers stationed with the Roman garrison in Dura Europos.

Pater (?) at Mithraeum of Marino

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

Praeses of the Noric Mediterranean province, of equestrian rank, restaured the Mithraeum of Virunum in 311.