The New Mithraeum Database

Neuenheim lies in an area occupied since at least the Iron Age, with a Celtic hilltop refuge and cult site on the nearby Heiligenberg from the 5th century BC. From around 40 - 45 CE, the site developed into a Roman vicus associated with a castellum.

Venetonimagus, now Vieu, part of the town of Valromey, would have been called Venetonimagus or Venetonimago in Gallo-Roman times.

Caesarea was first settled by the Phoenicians in the 4th century BC. In 63 BC, the Romans annexed the region and Caesarea became the seat of the Roman procurators.

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

Cyrene linked North Africa to the Greek East through long-standing urban traditions and eastern Mediterranean maritime exchange.

Along the northern frontier of Roman Britain, Britannia inferior preserves important evidence linked to military and frontier communities.

Bruttium occupied the southernmost reaches of the Italian Peninsula where maritime mobility linked Italy, Sicilia and the wider Mediterranean.

Latium formed the political and religious centre of the Roman world where some of the most important Mithraic communities developed.

Sicilia connected Italy, North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean through some of the busiest maritime routes of the Roman world.

Corsica et Sardinia occupied an important insular position within the maritime networks of the western Mediterranean.

Cappadocia formed a major frontier and military region linking central Anatolia to the eastern limits of the Roman empire.

Bithynia et Pontus connected northwestern Anatolia to the Black Sea through major maritime, urban and provincial networks.

Dalmatia connected the Adriatic world to the Balkan interior through maritime routes, military mobility and provincial urban networks.

Alpes Poenninae controlled important Alpine routes through which military movement and religious practices circulated between Gaul and Italy.

Narbonensis connected Roman Gaul to the Mediterranean world through some of the oldest urban and maritime networks of the western empire.

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

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

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