The New Mithraeum Database

The Mithraeum II in Stockstadt was in fact the first one known built in the vicus. It was destroyed by fire around 210.

This marble base found in Angera in 1868 bears the inscription of two people who reached the degree of Leo.

These two inscriptions by a certain Titus Martialius Candidus are dedicated to Cautes and Cautopates.

Mithras and Sol share a sacred meal accompanied by Cautes and Cautopates on a relief found in a cemetery from Croatia.

The Housesteads Mithraeum is an underground temple, now burried, discovered in 1822 in a slope of the Chapel Hill, outside of the Roman Fort at the Hadrian's Wall.

The second statue of Mithras rock-birth was found in the Mitreo di Santo Stefano Rotondo shows a childish Mitras emerging from the rock.

The 'Mithraic cave' in the Gradische/Gradišče massif near St. Egidio contained vessels decorated with snakes and the remains of chicken bones and other animals that were consumed during Mithraic ceremonies.

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

The head this statue of Cautes from Carrawburgh has been lost.

He erected one of the last known mithraea on his property.

Legate of the Legion II Adiutrix, stationed in Aquincum.

Clarissimo, defensor civitatis, magister and Pater patrum.

Offered the famous Tauroctony of Osterburken to the unconquerable sun god Mithras.

Pater patrorum of equestrian rank, he was a prominent figure in the Mithraic sphere in Rome.

Small triangular slab bearing a Latin inscription referring to Sol Invictus and to a sacred cave, probably dating to the 4th century AD.

This altar mentioning the god Arimanius was found in 1655 at Porta San Giovanni, on the Esquilino.

In the eighteenth year of Diocletian’s reign, Galerius Maximianus, persuaded by the sorcerer Theoteknos, consulted demonic oracles in a cave and was urged to initiate the persecution of the Christians.

This altar found in Lambèse, now Tazoult, Algeria, bears the inscription of a certain Celsianus for the health of two men to the god Sol Unconquered Mithras.

Acclaimed esoteric scholar @peter.mark.adams talks about his latest book, ‘Ritual and Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras’, interviewed by professor, writer and host of The New Mithraeum podcast @andreu.abuin.

Archaeologists at Doliche are now excavating houses around the vast Mithras temple to learn how people lived beside the sanctuary.