The New Mithraeum Database

Besigheim stands at the confluence of the Enz and Neckar rivers in the frontier region of southwestern Germania.

Augusta Rauricorum became one of the principal urban centres of the Upper Rhine region.

Alesia became famous as the site of Caesar’s decisive siege during the Gallic Wars.

Aguntum became an important urban centre of Roman Noricum near the eastern Alpine routes.

Arezzo is a city and comune in Italy and the capital of the province of the same name located in Tuscany.

Terni is a city in the southern portion of the region of Umbria, in Central Italy.

Timgad was a Roman city in the Aurès Mountains of Algeria.

A silver votive leaf from Deneuvre in Belgica, bearing a dedication to the unconquered god by a devotee named Germanus, with an archaic spelling of invicto.

A fragment of a pebble relief showing Mithras as bullkiller, with the collar-wearing dog holding its head near the wound, found in the bed of a stream at Interanum (modern Entrains-sur-Nohain) in Lugdunensis.

An inscription on the base CIMRM 940 from Interanum (modern Entrains-sur-Nohain) in Lugdunensis, recording a dedication to Augustus and to the unconquered god Mithras Sol, made by a dedicant named Castor.

An altar from Lucey in Narbonensis, dedicated to the unconquered god under the epithet Nabarze, possibly a variant of Mithras, set up by a dedicant named Severianus.

A dedication to the unconquered and propitious Sol Invictus Mithras, made by a priest named M. Pompeius on behalf of the divine house, the most sacred council, and the devout inhabitants of the colony of Elusatium (modern Eauze) in Aquitania.

A dedicatory inscription to Sol Invictus, made by an individual named Eudaemon, found at Glanum (modern Saint-Rémy-de-Provence) in Narbonensis.

A fragmentary inscription from Scaleby Castle near Cambeckfort (ancient Petrianae), preserving a partial dedication to Sol Mithras.

A marble relief found in 1851 built into the adjoining hall of White Friars at Chester (ancient Deva), now in the Grosvenor Museum, depicting a standing dressed figure with a sheep-hook in his left hand and possibly a downward-pointing torch in his right…

A marble relief found on the small island of San Michele di Zampanigo near Torcello in the Venetian lagoon, now in the Museum of Torcello, showing a cross-legged figure in Eastern attire resting his head in his right hand and holding a downward-pointing torch (Cautopates), framed by poppies…

A brief inscription from Trento (ancient Tridentum) recording a dedication to Sol by Q. Muielius Iustus together with his family.

A square base found with its companion piece at Trento, dedicated to the Genetrix of the god in thanks for a birth by Q. Muielius Iustus and his family.

Six small marble columns found in the Mithraeum at Angera in northern Italy: two plain-fluted, two carved with palm stems and lion's and Gorgon's heads alternating on the upper ledge, and two with serpentine coils and griffins flanking an amphora…

A small base found in 1874 at Vercelli (ancient Vercellae), bearing a partly legible dedication to the Invincible god by a negotiator named Suria.