The New Mithraeum Database

This temple of Mithras has been discovered under the Church in Vieux-en-Val-Romey, in 1869.

This altar was dedicated by a son to his father, one of the few Patres Patrum recorded in the western provinces.

Venetonimagus, now Vieu, part of the town of Valromey, would have been called Venetonimagus or Venetonimago in Gallo-Roman times.

Pater Patrum at Vieu (Valromey)

A skull and two human femora, the lower jaw missing, recovered from a small circular pit within the Mithraeum at Königshoffen; interpreted by Cumont as a parallel to ritual deposits of human remains in other Oriental sanctuaries on the Janiculum.

This inscription by a certain Aphrodisius was found under the old city hall of Algiers.

This magnificently illustrated publication renews the Mithraic dossier on the basis of concrete data, with caution and penetration. Marino's discovery is disconcerting and rekindles the controversy about the order in which bands should be read.

The Aion-Chronos of Mérida was found near the bullring of the current city, once capital of the Roman province Hispania Ulterior.

He devoted an altar to his father, Pater Patrum of Vieu

A torch end held by a hand in the pose of a dadophore, and another hand holding a small offering, found at the south-east cemetery adjacent to the Mithraeum of Les Bolards (ancient Venetonimagus) in Lugdunensis.

Three epigraphical fragments that together form the word magister, with traces of fire, found at the Mithraeum of Les Bolards (ancient Venetonimagus) in Lugdunensis.

A fine white marble bust of Venus, a head of a helmeted deity possibly Minerva, small female heads, and bronze eye-plaques analogous to those from the temples of Sequana and Apollo Vindonnus, found at the building south-west of the Mithraeum at Les…

A large red and white granite marble disc surrounded by rays, possibly representing the sun, found at the building south-west of the Mithraeum at Les Bolards (ancient Venetonimagus) in Lugdunensis.

Architectural elements including marble plaques, mouldings, entablature sections, and acanthus friezes, found in a building about 30–40 metres south-west of the Mithraeum at Les Bolards (ancient Venetonimagus) in Lugdunensis, suggesting the possible existence of a second sanctuary…

Two small stone fragments, possibly from a base, found at the Mithraeum of Les Bolards (ancient Venetonimagus) in Lugdunensis.

Fragments of a slab bearing an inscription mentioning Sol Aeternus and cohors II, found at the Mithraeum of Les Bolards (ancient Venetonimagus) in Lugdunensis.

A small white marble column decorated in high relief with spiral oak-leaves and acorns, together with fragments of two legs and two hands holding votive offerings, found at the Mithraeum of Les Bolards (ancient Venetonimagus) in Lugdunensis.

A small woman's head crowned with flowers, found at the Mithraeum of Les Bolards (ancient Venetonimagus) in Lugdunensis.