The New Mithraeum Database

Crete and Cyrene connect Mithraic evidence to island, North African and eastern Mediterranean networks.

Cappadocia preserves evidence shaped by military movement, eastern frontier dynamics and Anatolian religious landscapes.

Dalmatia preserves Mithraic evidence shaped by Adriatic routes, military movement and provincial urban centres.

Armenia occupied a strategic position between Roman and Iranian religious worlds during the centuries of Mithraic expansion.

The Alpine regions preserve scattered Mithraic evidence associated with military circulation and strategic routes across the western empire.

This inscription probably belonged to the fourth mithraeum of Poetovio and records the restoration of a Mithraic temple by the dux Aurelius Iustinianus.

Honorific marble statue base dedicated to the senator and Mithraic pater Alfenius Ceionius Iulianus Kamenius by members of his provincial administration.

Marble altar dedicated at the Vatican Phrygianum in Rome by the Mithraic pater Alfenius Ceionius Iulianus Kamenius in 374 CE.

This large limestone fragment from Roman Salona preserves the hind part of the bull together with Mithras’ foot and traces of his red tunic.

This limestone altar from Roman Dacia preserves a dedication to Mithras by a commander of the Ala II Pannoniorum.

This weathered limestone statue from the Mithraeum of Apulum depicts a standing figure in Oriental attire holding the head of a bull or ram.

This eulogy of Saint Eugene of Trapezos tells how, in the time of Diocletian, he and two other Christian fellows destroyed a statue of Mithras.

This inscription shows that Publilius Ceionius, most distinguished man, dedicated a temple to Mithras at Mila, in the modern Constantina, Algeria.

Sepulchral limestone inscription from the vicinity of the Mithraeum at Colonia Agrippina (Germania Inferior), mentioning the Mithraic grade Corax.

These bronze medallions associates the image of several Roman emperors with that of Mithras, usually as a rider, in the province Pontus.

Marble relief, probably found in Rome during the construction of the Palazzo Primoli along the Via Zanardelli.

This marble relief bears an inscription by Marcus Modius Agatho, who dedicated several monuments to Mithras on the Caelian Hill in Rome.

This plaque from Carsulae, in Umbria, refers to the creation of a leonteum erected by the lions at their own expense.

In this monument, the imperial slave Ision claims the completion of a new temple to Mithras in Moesia.

This inscription reveals the existence of a Mithraeum on the island of Andros, Greece, which has not yet been found.