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The New Mithraeum Database

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Monumentum

Torchbearer relief from Narbonne

This heavily damaged relief from Narbo preserves the figure of a cross-legged Mithraic torchbearer carved in low relief near the church of Saint-Sébastien in Narbonne.

Monumentum

Altar from Künzing by Valerius Magio

This fragmented monument bears an inscription of a certain veteran named Valerius Magio.

Provincia

Persia

Persia occupied a central place in ancient and modern interpretations concerning the origins and eastern background of Mithraic traditions.

Provincia

Pannonia inferior

Along the lower sectors of the middle Danube, Pannonia inferior became a major centre of Mithraic activity in the frontier provinces.

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Alpes Graiae

The high mountain routes of Alpes Graiae formed part of the Alpine corridors connecting Italy, Gaul and the northwestern provinces.

Provincia

Alpes Poenninae

Alpes Poenninae controlled important Alpine routes through which military movement and religious practices circulated between Gaul and Italy.

Provincia

Aquitania

In Aquitania, Mithraic evidence reflects the western expansion of the cult beyond the principal Rhine and Rhône corridors.

Monumentum

Mithréum d’Angers

The Mithraeum of Angers, excavated during a preventive operation and subsequently dismantled in 2010, yielded numerous objects, including coins, oil lamps, and a ceramic vessel bearing a votive inscription to the invincible god Mithras.

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief from Timziouin

This fragmentary tauroctony relief from Timziouin near Saïda depicts Mithras slaying the bull within a cave-like frame, accompanied by the raven, serpent, scorpion, and Cautopates.

Monumentum

Greek dedication to Mithras from Aenaria

This small Greek dedication from the island of Aenaria invokes Helios Mithras under the epithet “unconquered”.

Monumentum

Altar to Sol Invictus from Puteoli

This marble dedication from Puteoli was offered to Sol Invictus and the genius of the colony by Claudius Aurelius Rufinus together with his wife and son.

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief from Puteoli

This lost Mithraic relief, formerly kept near the church of the Santissima Annunziata in Naples, was probably a large tauroctony associated with the area of Puteoli or Pausilypon.

Regio

Persia

Persia occupies a central place in the intellectual and historical background of Mithraic studies.

Regio

Galatia

Galatia preserves Mithraic evidence shaped by central Anatolian routes and eastern provincial networks.

Regio

Corsica et Sardinia

Corsica and Sardinia preserve a small island corpus within the western Mediterranean diffusion of Mithraism.

Regio

Creta et Cyrene

Crete and Cyrene connect Mithraic evidence to island, North African and eastern Mediterranean networks.

Regio

Armenia

Armenia occupied a strategic position between Roman and Iranian religious worlds during the centuries of Mithraic expansion.

Monumentum

Statue of a torchbearer from Apulum

This weathered limestone statue from the Mithraeum of Apulum depicts a standing figure in Oriental attire holding the head of a bull or ram.

Monumentum

Mithraeum of S. Oancea

The remains of this Mithraeum were discovered in 1930 in the Cetatea district of Alba Iulia, ancient Apulum.

Monumentum

Marble relief fragment of Mithras from Apulum

This marble fragment from Apulum preserves the head of Mithras beneath an arch together with a raven and the remains of Sol’s radiate crown.

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