The New Mithraeum Database

Antistes and patron of the Mithraea of the Painted Walls and the Imperial Palace at Ostia.

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

Leading member of the Ostian Mithraic community, holder of the titles pater, sacerdos and antistes.

Mithraic priest and dedicator of the leontocephalic deity from the Fagan Mithraeum at Ostia.

Honoratus of the dendrophori of Ostia who dedicated a statue of Terra Mater in AD 142.

Donor of a small altar from the Mithraeum of the Seven Gates, Sextus Fusinius Felix may belong to a family attested among Ostia’s augustales.

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.

A Mithraic pater of Ostia who dedicated an altar to Cautes in the Mithraeum of the Painted Walls.

Roman citizen of Ostia who re-consecrated an earlier marble statue to Sol Invictus Mithras during the second century CE.

Landowner from Augustobriga, transferred to Tarraco by Antoninus Pius and owner of the villa of Els Munts and its Mithraeum.

Sandstone altar with patera from the rock sanctuary at Kreta, Moesia Inferior, bearing a Greek inscription of uncertain reading, possibly a thanksgiving to Mithras.

Sandstone tauroctony relief from the Mithraeum at Kreta (Крета), depicting Mithras within a vaulted grotto accompanied by the torchbearers, Sol and Luna.

Senior Mithraic priest of Ostia whose inscriptions preserve rare and unique epithets of Mithras, including Incorruptus Juvenis and Indeprehensibilis.

Pater and priest of the Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres at Ostia during the sanctuary’s restoration and flourishing.

Known from an altar dedicated to Mithras at Ostia during the tenure of the pater Marcus Aemilius Epaphroditus.

A priest of Sol Invictus Mithras who helped dedicate a throne in the Casa di Diana mithraeum.

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.

Patronus of the corpus lenunculariorum tabulariorum auxiliariorum Ostiensium.