The New Mithraeum Database

Budaörs is a town in Pest County, in the metropolitan area of Budapest, Hungary. Before the Romans, the Celtic tribe of Eraviscus occupied the area for about 100 years.

Brigetio, which became Szőny, was an independent town until 1977, when it was incorporated into Komárom. The Roman legion Legio I Adiutrix was stationed here from 86 AD until the middle of the 5th century.

The Celts are the first known to have settled in this place, which they called Binge, meaning rift. Roman troops stationed here in the first century AD rendered the local name as Bingium in Latin.

The area was populated by Iberians, but the origins of Baetulo date back to the 1st century BC, when the Romans founded the city on the Rosés hill. Baetulo was famous for its vineyards, which produced wine for export throughout the Empire.

Aquileia, now a small municipality in north-eastern Italy, was one of the largest cities in the world in the 2nd century AD, with a population of 100,000.

Apulum, now within Alba Iulia, was a Roman settlement first mentioned by the mathematician, astrologer and geographer Ptolemy. Its name comes from the Dacian Apoulon.

Within the southern sectors of Roman Dacia, Dacia Malvensis preserves evidence linked to military mobility and provincial urbanisation.

Baetica occupied a prosperous and highly urbanised corner of Roman Hispania where Mithraic cults circulated through Mediterranean exchange networks.

Across Tarraconensis, Mithraic evidence appears in diverse urban, military and Mediterranean environments of Roman Hispania.

Slave and vilicus in the household of Tiberius Claudius Livianus, linked to the earliest known Mithraic tauroctony.

A Mithraic initiate attested in Pannonia Superior during the late 2nd or early 3rd century CE.

Member of the Mithraic community of Les Bolards and dedicator of a statue of Cautes.

Tribune of the First Cohort of Vardulli, he erected a mithraeum at Bremenium together with his consacranei.

This small and highly questionable relief from southern France may depict a winged leontocephalic figure seated.

This supposed Mithraic altar from Soulan in the Pyrenees was later identified as a modern forgery, including both the inscription and the alleged cave context in which it was said to have been discovered.

This heavily damaged relief from Narbo preserves the figure of a cross-legged Mithraic torchbearer carved in low relief near the church of Saint-Sébastien in Narbonne.

This relief of Mithras slaying the bull incorporates the scene of the god carrying the bull and its birth from a rock.

Transpadana occupied the northern plains of Italy where major communication routes connected the peninsula to the Alpine and Danubian worlds.

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.