The New Mithraeum Database

Roger Beck describes Mithraism from the point of view of the initiate engaging with the religion and its rich symbolic system in thought, word, ritual action, and cult life.

Roger Beck revisits the zodiac circle of the Mithraeum on the island of Ponza, a composition unique within the Mithraic corpus. His reading places the monument in relation to cosmology, ritual space, and Mithraic doctrine.

Thrasyllus was an Egyptian of Greek descent grammarian, astrologer and a friend of the Roman emperor Tiberius.

The Mithraeum of Vulci is remarkable because of his high benches and the arches below them.

This monograph presents the findings from Robert J. Bull's 1973 excavation of the Mithraeum in Caesarea Maritima, Israel, including stratigraphic analyses, studies of frescoes and and insights into the site's historical significance.

Porphyry states that the Mithraists “perfect their initiate by inducting him into a mystery of the descent of souls and their exit back out again, calling the place a ‘cave’.”

The provenance of this fragment of a white marble relief depicting Mithras as a bullkiller is unknown.

"Dug up at Cambeck in the ruins of an old stone wall" (Gibs).

Retired

Scholar, politician and a court astrologer to the Roman emperors Claudius, Nero and Vespasian.

Latin writer, Platonic philosopher and rhetorician.

Last king of Commagene, Antiochus IV reigned between 38 and 72 as a client king to the Roman Empires.