The New Mithraeum Database

Limestone statue of a standing lion with mouth half-open, legs and tail lost, from the Mithraeum near Memphis, Egypt.

Badly damaged limestone statuette of a standing figure in Eastern attire, head, arms and feet lost, from the Mithraeum near Memphis, Egypt.

Upper part of a limestone torchbearer statue in tunic and hanging cloak, arms and lower legs lost, from the Mithraeum near Memphis, Egypt.

Limestone statuette of a standing torchbearer, torch and right arm lost, from the Mithraeum near Memphis, Egypt.

Fragment of a limestone statuette of a torchbearer in Eastern attire, head and lower legs lost, not cross-legged, from the Mithraeum near Memphis, Egypt.

Limestone statue of a figure in Eastern attire and Phrygian cap, probably a Cautes torchbearer, from the Mithraeum near Memphis, Egypt.

Engraved inscription naming Maximus as magus, from column 1 of the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos, Syria.

Limestone altar dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras by the governor and military commander Marcus Valerius Maximianus.

Greek inscription from Serdica, Thracia, dedicated to the invincible god by Caius Iulius Maximus for himself and his children.

Lower part of a sandstone altar from Svichtov, probably transported from Novae in Moesia Inferior, dedicated to Invicto by Caius Iulius Maximus, praefectus castrorum of Legio I Italica.

Inscription from Sarmizegetusa, Dacia, dedicated to Soli invicto by Lucius Domitius Primanus.

Yellowish marble tauroctony in two fragments from the Mithraeum at Sarmizegetusa, Dacia, executed in a primitive style with the bull represented obliquely.

Inscription from the Mithraeum at Sarmizegetusa, Dacia, dedicated ex voto by Cassius Maximus, augur of the Colonia Sarmizegetusa, and Marcus Ulpius Gaius.

Marble column from the Mithraeum at Sarmizegetusa, Dacia, dedicated ex viso by Flavius Trofimus.

Altar from Apulum, Dacia, found in 1715, dedicated to Soli by Quintus Marcius Victor Felix Maximillianus, legatus Augusti of Legio XIII Gemina, together with his wife Pullaiena Caeliana and his son.

Limestone altar from Partoș or Mureș Port, Dacia, found in 1852, with a triangular pediment containing the head of Sol in a twelve-rayed crown and nimbus, flanked by a patera on the right and a jug on the left.

Limestone altar fragment from the Mithraeum at Sárkeszi, Pannonia Inferior, dedicated to Fonti dei by Septimius Valentinus, optio.

Altar from Aquincum, Pannonia Inferior, dedicated to Mythrae Nabarze by Tiberius Pontius Maximus — the epithet Nabarze, possibly of Iranian origin meaning 'victorious', is attested on only a handful of Mithraic inscriptions.

Altar found at Altofen in 1855, ancient Aquincum, dedicated to Deo Arimanio — Ahriman, the Zoroastrian adversary — by Libella, leo, as a votive dedication to the fratres; one of the very few Mithraic dedications to Ahriman from the Roman world.

Limestone altar from Mithraeum III at Aquincum, Pannonia Inferior, dedicated to Invicto deo sacrum for the welfare of Caius Iulius Victorinus, decurio of the Colonia Aquincensium, by Caius Iulius Primus, his libertus.