The New Mithraeum Database

Mauretania preserves western North African evidence linked to urban and maritime networks of the Roman empire.

Mesopotamia preserves frontier evidence from the eastern limits of Roman Mithraic expansion.

The Bosporan Kingdom preserves evidence from one of the northernmost horizons of Mithraic diffusion in the ancient world.

Roman Dacia preserves one of the densest and most frontier-oriented bodies of Mithraic evidence in the empire.

This fragmentary inscription from Zuccabar, reused in the wall of the Sidi Abd-el-Kader mosque at Affreville, preserves a dedication to Sol Invictus.

The evidence from Roman Africa reflects the implantation of Mithraic cults within prosperous urban centres of the western Mediterranean.

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

Roman Syria preserves a major eastern corpus of Mithraic evidence within one of the empire’s most interconnected regions.

Pannonia preserves one of the most important frontier corpora of Mithraic evidence in the Roman world.

Lycia and Pamphylia preserve Mithraic evidence linked to southern Anatolian maritime and urban networks.

Crete and Cyrene connect Mithraic evidence to island, North African and eastern Mediterranean networks.

Cappadocia preserves evidence shaped by military movement, eastern frontier dynamics and Anatolian religious landscapes.

Armenia occupied a strategic position between Roman and Iranian religious worlds during the centuries of Mithraic expansion.

Roman Asia preserves a rich and diverse body of Mithraic evidence connected to the major cities of western Anatolia.

Bithynia and Pontus preserve important evidence for the diffusion of Mithraic cults across the Black Sea and northwestern Anatolia.

Late Roman dux associated with the restoration of the so-called Mithraeum IV of Poetovio.

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

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

This fragment of pottery depicting Mithras may have come from Gallia.

This monument has been identified from ’Memorie di varie antichità trovate in diversi luoghi della città di Roma’, a book by Flaminio Vacca of 1594.