The New Mithraeum Database

Figures in procession, each representing a different grade of Mithraic initiation, labeled with their respective titles.

This monument depicts Mihr/Mithras watching over the transition of power from Shapur II to Ardashir II, which took place in 379.

The Hekataion of Sidon, which depicts Hekate in her trimorphic form surrounded by three dancing girls, is the only example found to date in connection with the Mithraic cult.

This altar was originally consecrated to Hercules and was rededicated to Mithras by Callinicus in the Mithraeum of the House of Diana.

The Mithraeum of the terms of Mithras takes its name from being installed in the service area of the Baths of Mithras.

A fragmentary red sandstone relief preserves the upper part of three-headed Hekate holding a long object in her left hand.

Limestone altar from the Trier baths, carved on four sides with a lion and serpent, flanked by Sol and Luna, and likely linked to a Mithraic context involving Hekate.

The Rites of Hekate is a personal yet deeply rooted academic account of the current understanding of this ambivalent goddess, presented as an arcane and liminal archetype.

I am a graduate trying to complete a MA in archaeology. My Master`s Dissertation is about Mistery Cults in the Roman Empire

Sandstone base carved on two sides, with a head of Medusa framed by acanthus leaves and a reclining lion holding a head between its forelegs.

Small votive altar in white limestone from Aquae Mattiacae, dedicated to Deo Invicto by a miles pius. The top preserves the head of Cautes with his raised torch.

Thinking of forming a weekly group for those in the Anglosphere(USA, Canada, UK, Australia and NZ) to have a webcam call, discuss all things related to Mithras and form friends sharing a niche interest:)

A historical novel framed as the memoir of a Brittano-Roman soldier witnessing the end of Roman Britain. It explores identity, loyalty, and survival at the twilight of empire.

Moeller interprets the square as a Mithraic construction encoding cosmological, numerical, and theological structures of Roman mystery religion, rather than an early Christian cryptogram.

A study that re-examines Roman Mithraism through epigraphic evidence and comparative analysis, exploring its links with Orphism, Platonism, and Iranian traditions, and presenting the cult of Mithras as a solar path of individual spiritual awakening between East and West…

Francesco Massa examines how the concept of mysteria was transformed in the Roman Empire, as Christian authors from the mid-second century CE adopted the language of mysteries to articulate their own rituals and beliefs, reshaping understandings of both Christian and traditional cults…

Memoir by Félix Lajard analysing a Mithraic bas-relief discovered in Vienne in 1830. Based on direct examination of the fragments and their context, the study corrects an earlier misidentification and documents a rare lion-headed figure within a probable mithraeum…

The sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull found in Dormagen is exposed at Bonn Landesmuseum.