The New Mithraeum Database

Two extracts from De abstinentia ab esu animalium by Porphyry on sacrifices and the importance of abstinence from animal food among Persian Magi.

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

Dion Chrysostom, c. 100 A.D., a philosophical writer under the emperors Nerva and Trajan, composed a series of discourses or essays (λόγοι) on various subjects, in one of which he reports concerning the doctrines and practices of the magi.

I am an archaeologist from Macedonia. I have always been interested in Mithras. I am currently writing my MA thesis about the cult in my country.

Pseudo-Plutarch, De fluviis. Goodwin, Ed. Plutarch. Plutarch’s Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press of John Wilson and son.

Pseudo-Plutarch, De fluviis. Goodwin, Ed. Plutarch. Plutarch’s Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press of John Wilson and son.

Pater who dedicated an altar together with his bother in Bingium.

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

He and his brother, both of the Legio II Adiutrix, built a temple and erected several monuments in Budaors, Pannonia.

Decurion and member of the same college as Aemilius Chrysanthus.

Euhemerus was a Greek or Greco-Oriental man of modest status.

Actuarius and notarius, Celsianus dedicated an altar to Sol Mithras for the health of two illustrious men.

Veteran and ex duplicarius of ala I civum Romanorum who dedicated an altar to Mithras in Teutoburgium.

A slave of a certain Tiberius, he likely dedicated an altar to the invincible god Mithras in Carnuntum.

Together with his nephew, he was a syndexios of the Mithraeum in Stockstadt.

Pater from Nersae, Italia, known by an inscription of his mithraic Apronianus.

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

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

Imperial slave and an overseer of the Imperial estates who dedicated a Tauroctony to the Invincible god Sol.

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