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The New Mithraeum Database

Find news, articles, monuments, persons, books and videos related to the Cult of Mithras

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Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia preserves frontier evidence from the eastern limits of Roman Mithraic expansion.

 
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Dacia

Roman Dacia preserves one of the densest and most frontier-oriented bodies of Mithraic evidence in the empire.

 
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Africa

The evidence from Roman Africa reflects the implantation of Mithraic cults within prosperous urban centres of the western Mediterranean.

 
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Hispania

Roman Hispania preserves a relatively modest but strongly urban body of Mithraic evidence, centred above all on Mérida.

 
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Syria

Roman Syria preserves a major eastern corpus of Mithraic evidence within one of the empire’s most interconnected regions.

 
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Pannonia

Pannonia preserves one of the most important frontier corpora of Mithraic evidence in the Roman world.

 
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Italia

Roman Italia preserves a central and exceptionally influential corpus within the development of Mithraic cults.

 
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Gallia

Roman Gallia preserves one of the largest and most geographically diverse corpora of Mithraic evidence in the western empire.

 
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Britannia

Roman Britannia preserves one of the most strongly militarised corpora of Mithraic evidence in the western empire.

 
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Armenia

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

 
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Aegyptus

Roman Aegyptus preserves a distinctive body of Mithraic evidence shaped by Alexandria and the religious diversity of the eastern Mediterranean.

 
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Asia

Roman Asia preserves a rich and diverse body of Mithraic evidence connected to the major cities of western Anatolia.

 
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Anazarbus (Dilekkaya)

Anazarbus was an ancient Cilician city. Under the late Roman Empire, it was the capital of Cilicia Secunda.

 
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Cuicul (Djemila)

Roman colonial city of Numidia, later known as Djémila, renowned for its exceptionally well-preserved late antique urban remains.

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Aurelius Iustinianus

Late Roman dux associated with the restoration of the so-called Mithraeum IV of Poetovio.

 
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Altar of Manius Cretinus from Gherla

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

 
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Medallions with Mithras from Trapezus

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

 
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El-Gahra

The Roman settlement overlooked a passage between the Hodna and the Sahara via the Aïn Rich plain and the valley of the Oued Chaïr, between the Ouled-Naïl and Zab mountains.

 
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Fresco ‘City of Darkness’ from Hawarte

The City of Darkness unique fresco from the Mithraeum of Hawarte shows the tightest links between the western and eastern worship of Mithras in Roman Syria.

 
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Sumere (Samarra)

Founded on the east bank of the Tigris, Sumere is mentioned in Roman sources as a fortified settlement during the Persian campaign of Julian in 363 CE, notably by Ammianus Marcellinus.

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