The New Mithraeum Database

La localización de una comunidad mitraísta en San Juan de la Isla posee un notable interés, debido a la débil popularidad de este culto oriental entre las poblaciones de Hispania.

Laurent Bricault has revolutionised Mithraic studies with the exhibition The Mystery of Mithras. Meet this professor in Toulouse for a fascinating look at the latest discoveries and what lies ahead.

Soy Dra. en Filosofía y Letras por la Universidad de Alicante. He escrito un libro sobre Mitra denominado "Los templos del dios Mitra en el Imperio romano".

In the picture I am sitting on the wall next to the one where the sculpture of Mithras was found in Cabra, Spain.

Of Isis and Osiris or Of the Ancient Religion and Philosophy of Egypt, Plutarch, The Moralia.

The scholiast Lactantius Placidus comments on Statius’ passage identifying the Sun as Titan, Osiris, and Mithras, interpreting the Persian cave figure with the bull.

Two excerpts from the ’Life of Commodus’ in Lampridius’ Historia Augusta, dating from the 4th century CE.

Marcellinus was an antistes who reached the grade of Leo in Rome.

Together with two other brothers, he offered a relief of the tauroctony in Rome.

Butcher who dedicated a statue of Mercurius Quillenius in the Mithraeum of Groß-Gerau.

Tribune of the first cohort of Vardulli, he erected a mithraeum with his fellows in Brementium.

The pater Artemidorus seems to be an Augustan freedman of the Claudians, of Eastern origin.

Agatho has dedicated several monuments to Mithras in the Coelian Hill.

Hector erected an altar to Mithras in Emerita Augusta ’by means of a divine vision’, something unusual in Hispania.

Thrasyllus was an Egyptian of Greek descent grammarian, astrologer and a friend of the Roman emperor Tiberius.

King of the Greco-Iranian Kingdom of Commagene.

Founder of the Arasacid dynasty, Tiridates I was crowned king of Armenia by Nero in 66.

Danube region can be traced back to the legions that fought under his command in Armenia.

Roman emperor, son of the emperor and Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius.

He was a Heliodromus who recorded his grade on an inscription dedicated to Mithras.