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The New Mithraeum Database

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Elagabalus

Roman emperor at the age of 14, from 218 to his death in 222, Elagabalus was a main priest of the sun god Elagabal in Emesa.

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Gaius Rufius Euctatus

Pater Patrum at Vieu (Valromey)

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Marcus Valerius Maximianus

Clarissimus knight and legate born in Poetovio that helped to disseminate the cult of Mithras in the African provinces.

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Julian

Roman emperor and philosopher known for his attempt to restore Hellenistic polytheism.

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Marcus Aurelius Frontinianus

Frontinianus and Fronto built a Mithraeum in Budaors, probably on their own property.

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Lucius Apronius Chrysomallus

Dedicated an altar found in Gallia Narbonensis on the occasion of his elevation to the grade of Perses.

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Chrestion

Freedman from Greek-speaking origin who dedicated an altar to the invincible Mythra.

 
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Julian on Mithras

In these passages from his hymns and satires, Julian articulates a solar theology in which Helios governs cosmic order and time. Within this framework, Mithras appears as a personal divine guide associated with the ascent of souls.

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Heliodoros

One of the lions mentioned on the Santa Prisca procession fresco.

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Gaius Iulius Crescens

He devoted an altar to the Mother Goddesses for Respectus, found at the Mithraeum of Friedberg.

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Materninius Faustinus

He erected one of the last known mithraea on his property.

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Proficentius

Pater sacrorum and founder of the Mithraeum under the Basilica of S. Lorenzo.

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Aurelius Sabinus

Equites and Pater at Mithraeum Santo Stefano Rotondo.

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Doryphorus

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

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Marcus Caerellius Hieronimus

Freedman, Pater, priest and antistes.

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Myro

Son of the slave Fructus.

 
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Gregory of Nazianzus on rites, tortures and orgies

A series of polemical passages in which a leading fourth-century Christian theologian presents the cult of Mithras as a religion defined by cruelty, bodily suffering, and shameful initiation rites.

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Theodoros

One of the lions mentioned on the Santa Prisca procession fresco.

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Nicephoros

One of the lions mentioned on the Santa Prisca procession fresco.

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