The New Mithraeum Database

On one of the capitals of the cathedral of Santa Maria Nuova in Monreale, Sicily, an unusual turbaned bull-slaying Mithras has been recorded.

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

Votive inscription dedicated to Mithras by the veteran soldier Tiberius Claudius Romanius, from the Mithraeum II Köln, 3rd century.

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.

Preamble and notes published by G. R. S. Mead in his series Echoes from the Gnosis 1907, London and Benares. Translation of the manuscript by Dieterich Eine Mithrasliturgie 1903, Leipzig.

This small magical jasper gem shows Sol in a quadrigra on the recto and Mithras as a bull slayer on the verso.

The 24th annual MithraCon has been announced! It will be held in New Haven Connecticut from Friday 26th to Sunday 28th April 2024. MithraCon, or the New England Convention of Mithraic Studies, is a small informal conference focused on the study and…

Laurent Bricault has revolutionised Mithraic studies with the exhibition The Mystery of Mithras. Meet this professor in Toulouse for a fascinating look at the latest discoveries and what lies ahead.

This altar, discovered in Grude, near Tihaljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, bears an inscription by Pinnes, a soldier of the Cohors Prima Belgica.

There is no consensus as to whether the altar of the slave Adiectus from Carnuntum is dedicated to a Mithras genitor of light.

This limestone altar dedicated to Mithras by a certain Veturius Dubitatus was found in Dalj, Croatia, in 1910.

This oolite base, dedicated to the invincible Mithras, was found in the baths of the Villa de Caerleon, Walles.

This monument to Mithras and Cautes (or Cautopates) was erected in Carnuntum by the centurion Flavius Verecundus of Savaria.

The Mithraeum I of Ptuj contains the foundation, altars, reliefs and cult imagery found in it.

This marble slab, found in the Mithraeum of San Clemente, bears an inscription by a certain Aelius Sabinus for the health of the Emperor Antoninus Pius and his sons.

Horsley thought that, like some other inscriptions in the Naworth Collection, this altar also had come from Birdoswald.

These fragmentary monuments, one with an inscription, were found in the Gimmeldingen mithraeum.

This sandstone altar was dedicated to the god Invictus by a certain Faustinus from Gimmeldingen.

The inscription was located at the base of the main Tauroctony of the Gimmeldingen Mithraeum.