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The New Mithraeum Database

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Monumentum

Album of Sentinum

This inscription reveals the names of 36 cultori of Sentinum, one of whom bears the title of pater leonum.

Regio

Germania

Germania preserves some of the densest concentrations of Mithraic evidence in the Roman frontier provinces.

Syndexios

Terentius Priscus

Roman devotee of the elusive Mithraic deity Nabarze, possibly identical with the associate of the Egyptian priest Arnouphis.

Syndexios

Publius Nigidius Figulus

Roman statesman, scholar and Neo-Pythagorean philosopher associated with astrology, divination and ancient cosmology.

Syndexios

Alfenius Ceionius Iulianus Kamenius

Late Roman senator and governor of Numidia whose inscriptions present him as a Mithraic pater and initiate in several mystery cults.

Monumentum

Mitreo dels Munts

A possible Mithraic sanctuary attached to the luxurious Roman villa of Els Munts, near ancient Tarraco, whose interpretation remains disputed.

Syndexios

Valerian

Roman emperor from 253 to 260, he was taken captive by Shapur I of Persia. He was thus the first emperor to be captured as a prisoner of war.

Monumentum

Dedication to Deo Soli Invicto Mithrae from Vasio

A brief dedicatory inscription to Deus Sol Invictus Mithras, found at Vasio (modern Vaison-la-Romaine) in Narbonensis.

Syndexios

Septimius Severus

First Roman emperor of African origin and founder of the Severan dynasty, which ruled the empire for over four decades.

Monumentum

Mithraic relief from Rome

Roman Mithraic relief illustrated in figure 171 of Vermaseren’s catalogue.

Monumentum

Probable Mithraeum on the Aventine between S. Saba and Via Salvator, Rome

Roman building on the Aventine between the eastern side of S. Saba and Via Salvator, probably used as a Mithraeum at the end of the 4th century, with a long corridor bearing three semicircular niches and a large external basin.

Monumentum

Mithras rock-born of Dobrosloveni

This sculpture from Dobrosloveni, Romania, depicts the petrogenesis of Mithras, with a hole through the generative rock from which water flowed.

Monumentum

Tauroctony from Reșca

Tauroctony relief fragment with torchbearer and scene of Mithras’ rockbirth from Romula, Romania.

Monumentum

Fragment of a Mithraic tauroctony from Dacia

This marble fragment from Roman Dacia preserves part of a tauroctony with Sol, the raven, and Mithras dragging the bull.

Monumentum

Aion of Orazio Muti

This monument has been identified from ’Memorie di varie antichità trovate in diversi luoghi della città di Roma’, a book by Flaminio Vacca of 1594.

Monumentum

Stone tauroctony relief from Rome

Roman stone low-relief depicting Mithras as a bull-slayer, with the upper part of his head missing.

Monumentum

Tauroctony from Rome

White marble statue of Mithras killing the sacred bull preserved in the Museo Nacional Romano.

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief from Villa Borghese

This is one of the three reliefs depicting Mithras killing the bull that the Louvre Museum acquired from the Roman Villa Borghese collection.

Monumentum

Mitreo di San Clemente

The Mithraeum under the Basilica of San Clemente made part of a notable Roman house.

Monumentum

Terra sigillata bowl depicting the Mithraic cult meal from Trier

This terra sigillata was found in 1926 in a grave on the Roman cemetery of St. Matthias, Trier. An eyelet indicates that it could have been hung on a wall.

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