The New Mithraeum Database

Ensign-bearer of legion VI Hispana active in Aquileia.

There are no further details about this Mithraic statue from Transylvania, the historical region of central Romania.

The archaeology of the Mithraeum at Carrawburgh

Journée scientifique du 17 décembre 2021 au Musée royal de Mariemont, dans le cadre de l’exposition 'Le Mystère Mithra. Plongée au cœur d’un culte romain'.

Intervention de Lucinda Dirven, Universiteit van Amsterdam.

Tauroctony in black marble on display at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California.

Video reportage about the city and the Mithraeum of Jajce.

Those initiated into the Mithraic cult were called upon to climb up to seven symbolic rungs of the ladder ultimately leading to the rank of Pater.

Scholar in Mithraic Studies

Csaba Szabó is an associate professor at the University of Szeged (Hungary).

Owner of the Facebook group: Roman Cult of Mithras: His Mysteries, Mithraea and Worship. Owner of the blog: Meals with Mithras VERY into the subject.

Roman devotee of the elusive Mithraic deity Nabarze, possibly identical with the associate of the Egyptian priest Arnouphis.

Roman auxiliary prefect of the Cohors I Batavorum and one of the earliest known devotees of Mithras at Carrawburgh.

New evidence for the cult of Mithras and the religious practices of Legio IV Scythica at the Roman frontier city of Zeugma on the Euphrates.

Roman statesman, scholar and Neo-Pythagorean philosopher associated with astrology, divination and ancient cosmology.

Late Roman senator and governor of Numidia whose inscriptions present him as a Mithraic pater and initiate in several mystery cults.

Pater of the Mithraic community of Dura Europos attested in a communal dedication to Mithras and the syndexioi during the reign of Caracalla.

Roman senator, public augur and Mithraic pater attested among the aristocratic dedications associated with the Vatican Phrygianum in 376 CE.

One of the clearest examples of the late Roman aristocracy’s involvement in the mysteries of Mithras and other initiatory cults during the fourth century.

The tauroctony relief of Sidon depicts the signs of the zodiac and the four seasons, among other familiar features.