The New Mithraeum Database

Benefactor of the Imperial Palace Mithraeum and possible member of Ostia’s African community.

Small marble base recording a donation to M. Cerellio Hieronymo, pater and sacerdos, on behalf of an antistes who dedicated objects to the god, from the Mitreo degli Animali at Ostia.

Small marble base with a dedication by T. Annius Lucullus, sevir and quinquennalis, to Martis Dendrophoris Ostiensium, from the Mitreo degli Animali at Ostia, dated to 143 A.D.

Small marble base dedicated by C. Atilius Bassus, freedman and apparator of a priest of the Great Mother, to Silvanus dendrophoris, from the Mitreo degli Animali at Ostia.

Small marble base dedicated by Sex. Annius Merops, honoured Dendrophoros, to the image of Terrae Matris, from the Mitreo degli Animali at Ostia, dated to 142 A.D.

Probably the Pater of the Mithraeum of Ostia which bears his name.

An imperial freedman who restored the Mithraeum of Sabazeus for the Mithraic brethren.

Altar from Vratnik near Senia, Dalmatia, dedicated to Soli invicto Mithrae by Faustus, slave of Tiberius Saturninus, for himself and his family.

Donor of the monumental tauroctony that served as the central cult image of Mithraeum IV in Aquincum.

An imperial slave and customs administrator of the Illyrian tax system, he financed and built a Mithraic temple in Moesia Superior.

The Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres (Sette Sfere) is of great importance for the understanding of the cult, because of its black-and-white mosaics depicting the planets, the zodiac and related elements.

Altar with Cautes and Cautopates dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras as protector of the Tetrarchy in 3rd-century Carnuntum.

Dedicated a statue of Arimanius in Eboracum, now in the Yorkshire Museum.

A pater of the Ostian Mithraic community and member of the guild of carpenters.

A Mithraic pater at Ostia associated with the dedication of an image of Arimanius in the Casa di Diana mithraeum.

Late Roman senator and governor of Numidia whose inscriptions present him as a Mithraic pater and initiate in several mystery cults.

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

Veteran recalled to imperial service and sole named devotee of Mithras currently attested at Grumentum.

This relief of Mithras killing the bull, signed by a certain Χρῆστος, is on display in the Sala dei Animali of the Vatican Museum.

This altar from Grumentum in Lucania was dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras by Titus Flavius Saturninus, an evocatus in imperial service.