The New Mithraeum Database

This inscription by a certain Memmius Placidus is the first ever found signed by a Heliodromus.

The epigrahy includes a mention of Marcus Aurelius, a priest of the god Sol Mithras, who bestowed joy and pleasure on his students.

Tradition, symbolism, and radical critique.

A study of Roman Mithraism that combines historical evidence with a symbol-centred interpretive approach, exploring Mithraic iconography, ritual experience, and the cult’s encounter with Christianity in the Late Empire.

Interprets Mithraism as an initiatory path of inner transformation, reading its myths and rites as symbolic maps of consciousness rather than as historical narratives, and includes an appendix with the Ritual of Mithra from the Great Magical Papyrus of Paris…

This monument is the only one still available from the disappeared Mithraeum in Piazza S. Silvestro in Capite.

In this 4th-century Roman altar, the senator Rufius Caeionius Sabinus defines himself as Pater of the sacred rites of the unconquered Mithras, having undergone the taurobolium.

Marble plaque with inscription of a sacerdos probatus to Sol and the god Invictus Mithras.

Some authors have speculated that the flying figure dressed in oriental style and holding a globe could be Mithras.

The inscription explains the transmission of the fourth Mithraic degree through the Paters of the Mitraeum of San Silvestro.

The Mithraeum of the Animals was decorated with a mosaic depicting a naked man, a cock, a raven, an scorpion, a snake and the head of the bull.

Several figures related to the Mysteries of Mithras are depicted on the mosaics of the Mithraeum of the Animals.