The New Mithraeum Database

The remains of the Mithraeum of Aosta, also known as the Mitreo di Augusta Praetoria, were discovered in 1953 in insula 59, in a commercial district of the ancient city.

Small white marble altar made in honour of Mithras found at San Albín, Mérida.

This cylindrical marble altar was dedicated by the same Pater Proficentius as the slab, both monuments found in the Mithraeum beneath the Basilica of San Lorenzo.

This inscription found in the Mithraeum Aldobrandini informs us of certain restorations carried out in the temple during a second phase of development.

This small cippus to Zeus, Helios and Serapis includes Mithras as one of the main gods, although some authors argue that it could be the name of the donor.

The most emblematic of the Syrian Mithraea was discovered in 1933 by a team led by the Russian historian Mikhaïl Rostovtzeff.

Preamble and notes published by G. R. S. Mead in his series Echoes from the Gnosis 1907, London and Benares. Translation of the manuscript by Dieterich Eine Mithrasliturgie 1903, Leipzig.

For the launch of our YouTube channel, we chat with the author, poet, essayist and friend Peter Mark Adams about the Sola-Busca tarot, a Renaissance masterpiece, uncovering ties to the Mithras cult.

For the launch of our YouTube channel, we chat with the author, poet, essayist and friend Peter Mark Adams about the Sola-Busca Tarot, a Renaissance masterpiece, uncovering ties to the Mithras cult.

In this 4th-century Roman altar, the senator Rufius Caeionius Sabinus defines himself as Pater of the sacred rites of the unconquered Mithras, having undergone the taurobolium.

Three plaster altars within the main altar of the Mithraeum of Dura Europos, two of them with traces of fire and cinders.

Corax Materninius Faustinus dedicated other monuments found in the same Mithraeum in Gimmeldingen.

The remains of the Jajački Mithraeum were discovered accidentally during excavation for the construction of a private house in 1931.

This column found in the Mithraeum of Sarmizegetusa bears an inscription to Nabarze instead of Mithras.

Set in a Roman necropolis, the so-called Mithraeum of the Elephant takes its name from an elephant statue found in one of the tombs.

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

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

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

One of the reliefs of the Dura Europos tauroctonies includes several characters with their respective names.