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The New Mithraeum Database

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Monumentum

Mithras rock-born of Dobrosloveni

This sculpture from Dobrosloveni, Romania, depicts the petrogenesis of Mithras, with a hole through the generative rock from which water flowed.

Monumentum

Torchbearer head from Heddernheim

Sandstone fragment from Mithraeum I at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, probably the damaged head of a torchbearer, often misidentified as Mercury.

Monumentum

Tauroctony from Reșca

Tauroctony relief fragment with torchbearer and scene of Mithras’ rockbirth from Romula, Romania.

Monumentum

Mitreo di Marino

The Marino Mithraeum preserves one of the most elaborate painted cycles of Mithras’ myth, combining the tauroctony, planetary symbolism and scenes from the god’s sacred narrative.

Regio

Britannia

Roman Britannia preserves one of the most strongly militarised corpora of Mithraic evidence in the western empire.

Regio

Gallia

Roman Gallia preserves one of the largest and most geographically diverse corpora of Mithraic evidence in the western empire.

Regio

Hispania

Roman Hispania preserves a relatively modest but strongly urban body of Mithraic evidence, centred above all on Mérida.

Syndexios

Caracalla

Emperor Caracalla ordered one of Rome’s largest temples to the god Mithras to be built in the baths bearing his name.

Monumentum

Altar to Cautes by Septimius Valentinus

Limestone altar dedicated to Cautes by the Roman optio Septimius Valentinus, discovered in the Mithraeum of Sárkeszi in Pannonia Inferior.

Monumentum

Altar for Fons Dei

Fragmentary limestone altar dedicated by Septimius Valentinus, an optio, probably discovered in Mithraeum IV at Aquincum.

Provincia

Arabia

Arabia connected the Roman Near East to caravan routes, desert frontiers and the commercial networks of the southern Levant.

Locus

Isca (Caerleon)

Isca, variously specified as Isca Augusta or Isca Silurum, was the site of a Roman legionary fortress and settlement or vicus, the remains of which lie beneath parts of the present-day suburban town of Caerleon, Walles.

Locus

Tiddis (Béni Hamidane)

Tiddis was a Roman city that depended on Cirta and a bishopric as Tiddi, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see. It was located on the territory of the current commune of Bni Hamden in the Constantine Province of eastern Algeria.

Provincia

Numidia

Numidia occupied a frontier and military landscape where Mithraic cults circulated through urban settlements and imperial infrastructure.

Provincia

Tripolitania

Tripolitania connected the southern Mediterranean coast to caravan routes and maritime exchange networks of Roman North Africa.

Provincia

Africa Proconsularis

Africa Proconsularis formed one of the principal urban and administrative centres of Roman North Africa where Mithraic cults circulated through prosperous civic networks.

Provincia

Dacia superior

Dacia superior formed part of one of the most intensely Mithraic frontier regions of the Roman empire after the conquest of Trajan.

Provincia

Lusitania

Lusitania preserves one of the most important bodies of Mithraic evidence in Roman Hispania, centred above all on Augusta Emerita and its urban religious landscape.

Monumentum

Album of Portus

This marble tablet found at Portus Ostiae mentions a pater, a lion donor and a series of male names, probably from a Mithraic community.

Provincia

Bactria

Bactria occupied a distant eastern horizon associated with Iranian cultural traditions and the wider background of Mithraic interpretations.

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