The New Mithraeum Database

Wasson has aroused considerable attention by advancing and documenting the thesis that Soma was a hallucinogenic mushroom – none other than the Amanita muscaria, the fly-agaric that until recent times was the center of shamanic rites among the Siberian and Uralic tribesmen…

Peter Kingsley interpreta el poema de Parménides a la luz de inscripciones del sur de Italia y lo sitúa en un trasfondo religioso ligado a los ritos de incubación y a los sacerdotes de Apolo.

This graffito seems to be an account of offerings made by Mithras worshippers in the Cassegiato di Diana.

This marble slab bears an inception be the Pater Proficentius to whom Mithras has suggested to build and devote a temple.

This remarkable Greek marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was discovered in 1705 and remained in private collections until it was bought by the Louvre.

This is the first known inscription that includes Phanes alongside Mithras found in a Mithraic context.

This inscription was commissioned by a family of priests of the invincible god Mithras.

The votive image was donated by a certain Verus for a mithraeum which was probably located in the hinterland of the Limes.

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.

One of the two inscriptions by Aurelius Nectoreca, a follower of Mithras, found in Meknès, Morocco.

In this inscription, found in Angera in Lombardy, Mithras is referred to by the unicum 'adiutor'.

This relief of Mithras slaying the bull was erected in Piazza del Campidoglio, moved to Villa Borghese and is now in the Louvre Museum.

This marble base found in Angera in 1868 bears the inscription of two people who reached the degree of Leo.

The Mithraeum of Lucretius Menander was installed in the early 3rd century in an alley to the east of a Hadrianic building named after the solar god temple.

One of the altars from the Carrawburgh Mithraeum depicts the bust of Mithras or Sol.

This marble slab found near the Casa de Diana in Ostia bears two inscription with several names of brothers of a same community

The sculptures of Cautes and Cautopates from the Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale may have been reused from an older mithraeum in Ostia.

The Mithraic stele from Nida depicts the Mithras Petrogenesis and the gods Cautes, Cautopates, Heaven and Ocean.

De oorspronkelijke Nederlandse uitgave van 1959 introduceerde het werk van Vermaseren, dat als klassiek geldt in de populaire studie van het mithraïsme en dat de belangstelling voor deze cultus blijvend heeft gevormd.

Actes du 2e Congrès International, Téhéran, du 1er au 8 septembre 1975. (Actes du Congrès, 4). Éditions Brill, collection. Acta Iranica.