The New Mithraeum Database

This altar for the completion of a temple to Sol Invictus by Flavius Lucilianus was found in Fossa, Italy.

Small triangular slab bearing a Latin inscription referring to Sol Invictus and to a sacred cave, probably dating to the 4th century AD.

Fragment of limestone from Porêts, which was used in the 4th century.

Upon first examination, archaeologists interpreted the inscription on the cult vessel from Gradishje as referencing Mithras, though it has since been re-evaluated.

This marble slab bears an inception be the Pater Proficentius to whom Mithras has suggested to build and devote a temple.

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.

Limestone altar from the Trier baths, carved on four sides with a lion and serpent, flanked by Sol and Luna, and likely linked to a Mithraic context involving Hekate.

This limestone relief of Mithras killing the bull bears an inscription by a certain Flavius Horimos, consecrated in a ’secret forest’ in Moesia.

Limestone low-relief depicting Cautopates standing cross-legged in eastern dress, accompanied by a bull, flowing water from an overturned jar and a crescent from Bolognia.

Marble inscription recording the dedication of a cult image to the unconquered Mithras by a certain pater Valerius Marinus from Rome.

This monument is the only one still available from the disappeared Mithraeum in Piazza S. Silvestro in Capite.

Small limestone stele, discovered at Apt in 1903. It depicts a standing torchbearer in the conventional Mithraic posture and dress, accompanied by a cock placed at his feet.

This graffito seems to be an account of offerings made by Mithras worshippers in the Cassegiato di Diana.

Aelius Maximus identifies himself as a soldier of the Legio V Macedonica on a relief found in ancient Potaissa.

Callimorphus was a cashier (arkarius) of the estates of Chresimus, steward of emperors.

Vir perfectissimus and priest of Zeus Brontes and Hekate, he erected a mithraeum in Rome.

Imperial slave and an overseer of the Imperial estates who dedicated a Tauroctony to the Invincible god Sol.

A freedman of Septimius Severus, he was Pater and priest of the invincible Mithras, as mentioned in a marble inscription found in Rome.

This inscription found in the Mithraeum Aldobrandini informs us of certain restorations carried out in the temple during a second phase of development.

This monument bears an inscription to Mithras by a well-known general of the Roman Empire.