The New Mithraeum Database

Clarissimo, defensor civitatis, magister and Pater patrum.

Slave of Pontus and father of Myro.

Assistant magister.

Donor of the monumental Borghese relief.

Doryphorus gave his grade and name in a monumental candalabrum found in Rome.

Imperial freedman and strator that offered a monument to Serapis.

This is the first Pater mentioned in an inscription known to date.

Freedman who dedicated the first monument mentioning a Pater.

One of the lions mentioned on the Santa Prisca procession fresco.

One of the lions mentioned on the Santa Prisca procession fresco.

One of the lions mentioned on the Santa Prisca procession fresco.

Slave and bailiff of Tiberius Claudius Livianus.

Libertus from the Arrii-family to which also belonged the Emperor Antonius Pius.

The votive fresco from the Mithraeum Barberini displays several scenes from Mithras’s myth.

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull of Nersae includes several episodes from the exploits of the solar god.

This damaged relief of Mithras killing the bull found in 1804 and formerly exposed at Gap, is now lost.

This inscription mentions a Pater for the first known time.

Marble altar dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras, found in Rome (in aedibus Maffaeiorum), set up in 183 A.D. by M. Ulpius Maximus, praepositus tabellariorum, together with its ornaments and Mithraic insignia, in fulfilment of a vow.

Marble inscribed slab recording the dedication of a Mithraeum and an antrum to Mithras for the safety and victories of Septimius Severus and his family, found in Rome.

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