The New Mithraeum Database

Picenum connected the Adriatic coast of central Italy to inland communication routes and the wider networks of the Roman Peninsula.

Samnium occupied a mountainous region of central Italy linked to Rome through military movement and regional urban networks.

Lucania connected inland southern Italy to the Tyrrhenian and Ionian maritime worlds through regional communication networks.

Bruttium occupied the southernmost reaches of the Italian Peninsula where maritime mobility linked Italy, Sicilia and the wider Mediterranean.

Apulia connected southern Italy to the Adriatic and eastern Mediterranean through maritime trade and regional urban networks.

Campania preserved a vibrant urban and maritime environment closely connected to the commercial life of Roman Italy.

Latium formed the political and religious centre of the Roman world where some of the most important Mithraic communities developed.

Sicilia connected Italy, North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean through some of the busiest maritime routes of the Roman world.

Corsica et Sardinia occupied an important insular position within the maritime networks of the western Mediterranean.

At the western edge of the Roman world, Mauretania Tingitana linked North Africa to Hispania through military and maritime exchange.

Mesopotamia formed part of the eastern frontier zone where Roman military expansion encountered long-established Mesopotamian traditions.

Syria-Palestina occupied a complex religious landscape shaped by imperial administration, pilgrimage and eastern Mediterranean mobility.

Cilicia occupied a key position between Anatolia, Syria and the eastern Mediterranean maritime routes.

Lycia et Pamphylia connected southern Anatolia to the maritime networks of the eastern Mediterranean world.

Galatia occupied the central Anatolian crossroads through which military movement and eastern provincial networks intersected.

Bithynia et Pontus connected northwestern Anatolia to the Black Sea through major maritime, urban and provincial networks.

Chersonesus occupied a northern Black Sea position where Greek, Roman and frontier cultures intersected at the edges of the Mithraic world.

Achaea preserves some of the earliest and most culturally complex evidence for Mithraic cults in the Greek-speaking eastern Mediterranean.

Macedonia formed a major crossroads between the Greek world, the Balkans and the communication routes of the eastern Roman empire.

Thracia connected the Balkan world to the northern Aegean through military movement, trade routes and provincial urban centres.