The New Mithraeum Database

Csaba Szabó is a research fellow of the University of Szeged (Hungary).

The Digital Atlas of Roman Sanctuaries in the Danubian Provinces (DAS) is the first comprehensive and open access representation of sacralised spaces in the area.

Ernest Renan suggested that without the rise of Christianity, we might all have embraced the cult of Mithras. Nevertheless, it has had a lasting influence on secret societies, religious movements and popular culture.

The Danubian provinces represent one of the largest macro-units within the Roman Empire, with a large and rich heritage of Roman material evidence. Although the notion itself is a modern 18th-century creation, this region represents a unique area, where t…

This catalogue proposes, thanks to the contributions of some 75 international experts, a new synthesis for a complex and fascinating cult that reflects the remarkable advances in our knowledge in recent decades.

The tauroctonic relief from Dragus includes a naked flying figure that Vermaseren has identified as Phosporus or Lucifer.

TNMM310 – CIMRM 1919

Why did the Romans worship a Persian god? This book presents a new reading of the Mithraic iconography taking into account that the cult had a prophecy.

This relief of Mithras killing the bull is unique in the Apulum Mithraic repertoire because of its inscription in Greek.

TNMM667 – CIMRM 2002

Veteran of the legion XIII and member of the Fabia tribe.

In 1852, Károly Pap, a naval captain, unearthed several Mithraic monuments in his garden at Marospartos, including this altar.

TNMM666 – CIMRM 1945

The relief of Mithra slaying the bull from Apulum, Romania, has been missing until the scholar Csaba Szabó identified it in the diposit of the Arad Museum.

TNMM346 – CIMRM 1938

Freedman, he offered a relief of Mithras as a bull killer for the well-being of his two former masters in Apulum.

Hyacinthus, like Hermadio, seems to have been one of the profets of Mithraism in the Dacian region.

Clarissimus knight and legate born in Poetovio that helped to disseminate the cult of Mithras in the African provinces.

Probably an slave that dedicated an altar to Arimanius in Aquincum.

A sixth temple dedicated to Mithras has been identified for the first time in the military sector of the ancient Roman city of Aquincum.

TNMM760