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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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Tauroctony in Copenhagen

This statue of Mithras as a bullkiller was bought at Rome where it might be found.

 
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Tauroctony relief found between Porta Portese and St Pancrace

Franz Cumont bought this relief of Mithras as a bullkiller from a dealer who claimed to have found it in a vineyard near the church of Saint Pancrace, in Rome.

 
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Relief of Jupiter, Juno and Minerva

This marble relief bears an inscription by Marcus Modius Agatho, who dedicated several monuments to Mithras on the Caelian Hill in Rome.

 
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Mithraeum of the Baths of Caracalla

The Mitreo delle terme di Caracalla is one of the largest temples dedicated to Mithras ever found in Rome.

 
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Mitreo del Circo Massimo

The Mithraeum of the Circus Maximus was discovered in 1931 during work carried out to create a storage area for the scenes and costumes of the Opera House within the Museums of Rome building.

 
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Mitreo della Piazza Dante

The Mithraeum located in Piazza Dante in Rome was discovered in 1874 along with a series of monuments dedicated by a Pater named Primus.

 
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Mitreo di Santo Stefano Rotondo

The Mitreo dei Castra Peregrinorum was discovered under the church of Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rome.

 
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Tauroctony in the British Museum

The sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull was transported from Rome to London by Charles Standish in 1815.

 
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Mitreo del Campidoglio «lo perso»

This temple of Mithras on the north side of the Capitoline Hill in Rome no longer exists.

 
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Mithraic arcosolium of Catacombe de Marcellino e Pietro

A dinner scene with Sabina from the Catacombe dei Santi Marcellino e Pietro, near Rome, may have been commissioned by a follower of Mithras.

 
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Mithraic Sol of Piazza Dante

The relief of Sol was found during the construction of Piazza Dante in Rome in 1874.

 
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Tauroctony of Asciano

The marble Tauroctony of Asciano, Siena, was donated by Franz Cumont to the Academia Belgica, Rome.

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Lucius Septimius Archelaus

A freedman of Septimius Severus, he was Pater and priest of the invincible Mithras, as mentioned in a marble inscription found in Rome.

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Flavius Septimius Zosimus

Vir perfectissimus and priest of Zeus Brontes and Hecate, he erected a mithraeum in Rome.

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Kastos (father)

Together with his son, with whom he shares his name, Kastos has dedicated several monuments in Rome to the glory of Zeus Helios Mithras.

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Flavius Antistianus

Pater patrorum of equestrian rank, he was a prominent figure in the Mithraic sphere in Rome.

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Nonius Victor Olympus

Pater Patrum and Senator. He was also the patriarch of the Olympian dynasty, overseeing a Mithraic community in the centre of Rome.

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Doryphorus

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

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Caracalla

Emperor Caracalla ordered one of Rome’s largest temples to the god Mithras to be built in the baths bearing his name.

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Gaius Rufius Euctatus

Pater Patrum at Vieu (Valromey)

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