The New Mithraeum Database

Along the northern frontier of Roman Britain, Britannia inferior preserves important evidence linked to military and frontier communities.

Britannia superior preserves a substantial body of Mithraic evidence associated with military sites and urban centres of Roman Britain.

Aegyptus occupied a unique position within the Roman world where Mediterranean trade, Nile networks and ancient religious traditions intersected.

Picenum connected the Adriatic coast of central Italy to inland communication routes and the wider networks of the Roman Peninsula.

Campania preserved a vibrant urban and maritime environment closely connected to the commercial life of Roman Italy.

Mesopotamia formed part of the eastern frontier zone where Roman military expansion encountered long-established Mesopotamian traditions.

Syria-Coele formed one of the principal urban and cultural centres of the Roman Near East where diverse religious traditions coexisted.

Chersonesus occupied a northern Black Sea position where Greek, Roman and frontier cultures intersected at the edges of the Mithraic world.

Macedonia formed a major crossroads between the Greek world, the Balkans and the communication routes of the eastern Roman empire.

Lugdunensis formed part of the urban and administrative core of Roman Gaul, where Mithraic cults circulated through major civic centres.

Roman Sicilia preserves Mithraic evidence shaped by Mediterranean mobility and the island’s strategic position between east and west.

Mauretania preserves western North African evidence linked to urban and maritime networks of the Roman empire.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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