The New Mithraeum Database

This sandstone altar from the Mithraeum of Vindobala (modern Rudchester) preserves a dedication to the Invincible Mithras by P. Aelius Titullus, prefect of a cohort.

The inscription on the decorated altar No. 839 from the Mithraeum at Vindobala (modern Rudchester), recording a gift to the Deity by L. Sentius Castus, a soldier of the Sixth Legion.

A decorated altar from the Mithraeum at Vindobala (modern Rudchester), with the letters DEO crowned with vittae on the shaft, surrounded by palm-branches, a representation of Mithras' rock-birth on the capital, and on the front of the die a naked figure grasping a bull's horns…

A small marble fragment from Augusta Emerita (modern Mérida) bearing the fragmentary inscription (S)arapi(s), attesting to the veneration of Sarapis in proximity to the Mithraic sanctuary.

A marble statuette found at Augusta Emerita (modern Mérida) in 1902, representing a seated deity whose head, arms and feet are lost, tentatively identified as Jupiter-Serapis.

A small limestone votive altar from Pola (modern Pula) bearing on its front face a damaged relief head of a youthful Sol with long curly hair, above which is carved the inscription Soli and below the dedicatory text by Atticus (No. 757).

A fragmentary limestone tauroctony relief found on the south slope of the Castellhügel at Pola (modern Pula) during the demolition of a wall, now in the Lapidary Museum at Pula, preserving the bull's body, the dog, the serpent, the scorpion and a standing cross-legged torchbearer…

Two limestone statue fragments from Mithraeum II at Aquincum, Pannonia Inferior, representing Mercury in a shoulder-pinned garment with wings in his hair; probably stood in room A on base y.

Vercellae was the Roman city corresponding to modern Vercelli.

Tridentum was the Roman city corresponding to modern Trento.

Comum was the Roman city corresponding to modern Como.

Brixia was the Roman city corresponding to modern Brescia.

Augusta Taurinorum was the Roman city corresponding to modern Turin.

Olisipo was the Roman city corresponding to modern Lisbon.

Glanum was an important Roman town in Narbonensis near modern Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.

Arverni refers to the territory of the Arverni in central Gaul, centred on the region of modern Clermont-Ferrand.

The area of modern Zagreb has yielded material linked to the northwestern frontier of the Dalmatian world.

The modern city of Drobeta-Turnu Severin preserves the memory of the ancient Danubian centre of Drobeta.

Rockenhausen lies within the broader frontier zone of the Upper Rhine and Palatinate region.

The designation Prope Apulum refers to discoveries made in the vicinity of Apulum within the wider archaeological landscape of central Dacia.