The New Mithraeum Database

Governor of Numidia and prolific dedicator of monuments to Sol Mithras, Sol Invictus and other deities in late Roman North Africa.

Two terracotta lamps formerly in the Coll. Passeri and now probably in the Museo Olivieri at Pesaro: the first showing Mithras as a bullkiller, the second in the shape of a bull's head inscribed Μέθρα ἱερός on the horns, both regarded as probably forged…

The head of Mithras had seven holes made for fastening rays.

Fragment of a large marble relief from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, preserving the forepart of the bull, the leaping dog, and the serpent approaching the wound.

Marble fragment from the Zollfeld at Virunum, Noricum, bearing a dedication to Deo invicto Mithrae for the welfare of the Emperor Antoninus Augustus.

This relief is so well-known that it has been reproduced in nearly every handbook of archaeology and of history of religions.

Marino is an Italian comune with 46,676 inhabitants located in the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital in Lazio.

Visentium was the Latin name of one of the minor Etruscan cities.

Slave and vilicus in the household of Tiberius Claudius Livianus, linked to the earliest known Mithraic tauroctony.

In this conversation with Lenni George, on the occasion of the release of her latest book ‘The Rites of Hekate: From the Dirt to the Divine,’ we explore that shifting presence: a goddess of thresholds, of illumination and obscurity, of descent and return…

Lenni George on Hekate’s development across ancient traditions, from mystery cults to magical practice and philosophical thought.

The altar of Ptuj depicts Mithras and Sol on the front and the water miracle on the right side.

In these two key passages, Justin Martyr interprets Mithraic rituals and myths as demonic parodies of Christ’s incarnation, the Eucharist, and biblical revelation.

Decurion and member of the same college as Aemilius Chrysanthus.

Pater at Mainz.

Priest and astrologer of Milan.

Pater of Aquileia that devoted an altar to Mithras.