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The New Mithraeum Database

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Monumentum

Altar with ram heads from Töltschach

Small altar found at Töltschach in 1817, Noricum, decorated with the traces of two ram heads flanking foot-prints; the relief is no longer visible and only the inscription survives.

Monumentum

Amethyst intaglio with Tauroctony

Amethyst intaglio engraved with Mithras slaying the bull, accompanied by Sol, Luna and other canonical Mithraic symbols.

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Price list from Dura-Europos

Fragmentary Greek graffito from Dura-Europos recording the prices of everyday goods such as wine, meat, wood and lamp wicks.

Locus

Samosata (Samsat)

Samsat, formerly Samosata is a small town in the Adıyaman Province of Turkey, situated on the upper Euphrates river.

Locus

Burham (Burham)

Burham is a village and civil parish in the borough of Tonbridge and Malling in Kent, England.

Locus

Bingium (Bingen am Rhein)

The Celts are the first known to have settled in this place, which they called Binge, meaning rift. Roman troops stationed here in the first century AD rendered the local name as Bingium in Latin.

Provincia

Samnium

Samnium occupied a mountainous region of central Italy linked to Rome through military movement and regional urban networks.

Provincia

Campania

Campania preserved a vibrant urban and maritime environment closely connected to the commercial life of Roman Italy.

Provincia

Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia formed part of the eastern frontier zone where Roman military expansion encountered long-established Mesopotamian traditions.

Provincia

Lycia et Pamphylia

Lycia et Pamphylia connected southern Anatolia to the maritime networks of the eastern Mediterranean world.

Regio

Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia preserves frontier evidence from the eastern limits of Roman Mithraic expansion.

Regio

Lycia et Pamphylia

Lycia and Pamphylia preserve Mithraic evidence linked to southern Anatolian maritime and urban networks.

Monumentum

Scratched words of Kamerios

'Hail to Kamerios the Pater' can be read on one of the walls of the mithraeum at Dura Europos.

Monumentum

Tauroctony framed by acanthus leaves

This relief of Mithras slaying the bull, framed by acanthus leaves, was sold at auction in 2011 by Bonhams.

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Relief of Jupiter, Juno and Minerva from the Caelian Mithraeum

This marble relief bears an inscription by Marcus Modius Agatho, who dedicated several monuments to Mithras on the Caelian Hill in Rome.

Monumentum

Inscription on the leonteum of Umbria

This plaque from Carsulae, in Umbria, refers to the creation of a leonteum erected by the lions at their own expense.

Monumentum

Column with inscription by workers of the pig market

The inscription included the names of the brotherhood, which are now lost.

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Altar to Mithras and Mars from Mainz

This altar has been unusually dedicated to both gods Mithras and Mars at Mogontiacum, present-day Mainz.

Monumentum

Lamp with human dismemberment scene from Arles

This lamp, depicting a man slicing his victim into pieces with a sword, was believed to be associated with the Cult of Mithras.

Notitia

A name older than Greece

On what Hekate’s name may or may not tell us, and why the uncertainty matters.

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