The New Mithraeum Database

Epigraphic testimony catalogued in the Année Épigraphique and Lugli’s Fontes for ancient Rome.

Large marble slab found in 1648 near S. Silvestro in Capite, inscribed with a Latin dedicatory poem forming a cypher-acrostic for TAMESIUS and AUGENTIUS, with records of leontica and chrysos initiations, dated to 362 A.D.

Small semi-round base found on the Monte Quirinale in Via Mazzarini, from a small Mithraeum, with a dedication to Mithras by T. Camurenus Philadelfus through Nonius Firmus pater.

Archaeological material from the Mithraeum of Londinium discussed in Hill’s study of Roman London.

Lower part of a white marble cinerary casket decorated with a relief of Mithras killing the bull, from the necropolis area near the amphitheatre of Sabratha.

Rock inscription of Sagarios, strategus of Ariaramneia, recording a Mithraic ceremony near Farasha (ancient Ariaramneia), Cappadocia, likely 1st century A.D.

Stone from Durrës, ancient Dyrrachium in Macedonia, dedicated to Soli aeterno by Marcus Laelius Aquila, sacerdos; the name Aquila may correspond to a Mithraic grade.

White marble tauroctony relief from Veles, ancient Bylazora in Macedonia; the merchant reported that other fragments of the same monument were walled into a fountain in Veles.

Small weathered arched tauroctony relief from the ruins of ancient Kabyle near Yambol, Thracia, depicting the standard bull-slaying scene.

Fragmentary Greek inscription from Sinitovo, Thracia, preserving only the epithet epekooi — the listening one — and a partially legible name beginning with Audios.

Fragment of a marble tauroctony relief found between Sinitovo and Tatar-Bazardjik, Thracia, preserving only the upper portion with the busts of Sol and Luna; the Greek inscription in the border names the dedicant.

Two marble relief fragments from Dolni Vadin, Thracia, one showing Sol's chariot and the other the right lower corner of a bull-slaying scene; the two fragments may not belong to the same relief.

Small Mithraic sanctuary discovered in 1958 in the grotto called Adam near Tirgușor, Moesia Inferior, about 30 km from Constanța; the monuments are remarkable for their Greek inscriptions.

Archaeological context at Acbunar (Mircea Vodă) near Troesmis, Moesia Inferior, where twelve marble pieces, pottery, lamps, and a coin were found 30 metres from a Roman building, suggesting the presence of a Mithraeum.

Marble tauroctony relief fragment from the Byzantine camp at Pontelimonul de sus, ancient Ulmetum in Moesia Inferior, found reused in the masonry; the subject is partly identifiable.

Damaged limestone tauroctony relief fragment from near Utum, Moesia Inferior, of disputed exact provenance — either Utum or Chemlievo — depicting part of the standard bull-slaying scene.

Circular Mithraic relief from Oescus, Moesia Inferior, mentioned by LeRoy Campbell; no further details are available to the author.

Upper portion of a limestone altar from Kule-Mahata, ancient Almus in Moesia Superior, dedicated to the invictus — possibly but not certainly Mithras — by Caius Plotius Maro for himself and his family.

Damaged white marble tauroctony relief from Timočka Krajina, Moesia Superior, depicting the bull-slaying with corn-ear tail, dog, serpent, scorpion, and torchbearers.

Inscription from Lopata, Moesia Superior, recording that Apollonides, imperial slave and scrutator of the statio Lamud, restored a Mithraic temple that had collapsed through age at his own expense; dated to the consulship of Gentianus and Bassus, AD 211.