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The New Mithraeum Database

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Altar of Firmidius Severinus from Geneva

This limestone altar bears an inscription from its donor, Firmidius Severinus, in honour of Mithras after 26 years of service in the Legio VIII Augusta.

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Mitreo di Santa Prisca

The Mithraeum of Santa Prisca houses remarkable frescoes showing the initiates in procession.

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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.

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Wall-painting of Mithras tauroktonos in the house of the Nummi Albani, Rome

Wall-painting of Mithras tauroktonos in fresco, discovered in 1886 in an underground room of the house of the Nummi Albani on the Quirinal (Via Firenze); the god wears a red cap and tunic, the torchbearers wear yellow or orange tunic and cap with green or brown anaxyrides…

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Marble cinerary casket fragment from Sabratha

Lower part of a white marble cinerary casket decorated with a relief of Mithras killing the bull, from the necropolis area near the amphitheatre of Sabratha.

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Mithraeum at Tirgușor

Small Mithraic sanctuary discovered in 1958 in the grotto called Adam near Tirgușor, Moesia Inferior, about 30 km from Constanța; the monuments are remarkable for their Greek inscriptions.

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Altar to Cautopates from Iulium Carnicum

Small altar dedicated to Cautopates discovered at Ospedaletto di Gemona and later lost.

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Two lost tauroctony monuments from Palazzo Barberini and Palazzo Sanesio, Rome

Two lost Mithraic monuments from Rome: one documented in a 1738 catalogue of the Palazzo Barberini as a tauroctony group with scorpion, snake and dog, and another mentioned by Pirro Ligorio as a Mithras panel in the Palazzo del Duca di Sanseverino.

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Zodiacal bronze plaques from Ostia

Series of small bronze plaques depicting zodiac signs and planetary figures discovered in Ostia and possibly connected with the decoration of a Mithraic sanctuary.

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Second tauroctony relief from Romula

White marble tauroctony relief fragment from Romula, Dacia, now in Turnu Severin; the composition is partially preserved.

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Inscription of Sahin

Altar inscription from Sahin invoking the most high heavenly god and Mithras in the Alawite Mountains.

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Tauroctony from Ottaviano Zeno

In this relief of Mithras as bull slayer, recorded in 1562 in the collection of A. Magarozzi, Cautes and Cautopates have been replaced by trees still bearing the torches.

Locus

Ectabana (Hamadan)

Ecbatana was an ancient city, which was first the capital of Media in western Iran, and later was an important city in Persian, Seleucid, and Parthian empires.

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Jajce (Jajce)

Little is known about Jajce in Roman times, apart from the accidental discovery of a 4th-century mithraeum in 1931.

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Capua (Santa Maria Capua Vetere)

Capua is currently a city and comune in the province of Caserta, in the region of Campania, southern Italy, situated 25 km north of Naples, on the northeastern edge of the Campanian plain.

Syndexios

Lucius Caecilius Optatus

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

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Lucius Petreius Victor

Garlic merchant, probably from Lusitania, who dedicated an altar to Cautes in Tarraconensis.

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Mithréum d’Angers

The Mithraeum of Angers, excavated during a preventive operation and subsequently dismantled in 2010, yielded numerous objects, including coins, oil lamps, and a ceramic vessel bearing a votive inscription to the invincible god Mithras.

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Marcus Ulpius Maximus

Supervisor of the imperial couriers who offered an elaborate votive altar and ritual insignia to Mithras in Rome under Commodus.

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Hector Corneliorum

Hector erected an altar to Mithras in Emerita Augusta by means of a ‘divine vision’.

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