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The New Mithraeum Database

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Syndexios

Silvestrius Silvinus

Quadratarius who made some mithraic monuments including the two-sided relief of Dieburg

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Materninius Faustinus

He erected one of the last known mithraea on his property.

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Tiberius Claudius Romanius

Veteran from Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium (Köln) who erected an inscritiption to Mithras and his ally Sol.

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Secundinus

Imperial slave and head of the customs statio of Esca in Noricum.

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Sextus Pompeius Maximus

Pater Patrum of Ostia, he officiated at the Mitreo Aldobrandini where he is mentioned in a couple of inscriptions.

Notitia

Contra Celsum

229 A.D. The passage quoted is from the sixty-third book, ch. 10. Origen

Monumentum

Iron sword and crown of Güglingen

Several iron fragments found in the second mithraeum of Güglingen may have been used during mithraic ceremonies.

Socius

Oliver Windridge

classics student at the Uni of Edinburgh

Monumentum

Relief of Aion-Phanes

The Aion / Phanes relief, currently on display in the Gallerie Estensi, Moneda, is associated with two Eastern mysteric religions: Mithraism and Orphism.

Notitia

The Crossed Bones and Lady Liberty

The Cilician pirates incorporated significant divine feminine elements, notably Anahita, into their Mithraic practices, profoundly influencing the initiation rites within the Roman Empire.

Monumentum

Casa del Mitreo

The name of this domus comes from the fact that some authors once associated one of its mosaics with the cult of Mithras, a connection that has since been dismissed.

Monumentum

Feast from Mérida

This scene of a feast from Mérida shows three persons at a table with other people standing beside them, one holding a bull’s head on a plate.

Monumentum

Frescoes with standing figures of Mitreo delle Pareti Dipinte

The frescoes depict several figures dressed in different garments associated with the Mithraic degrees.

Monumentum

Mithraeum of Ša‘āra

The Mithraeum of Saara, Syria, has been identified through the deciphering of the remains of the iconographic programme on its arch.

Monumentum

Niasar Cave

The Niasar Cave, غار نیاسر, was a temple probably devoted to Iranian Mithras that dates back to the early Partian era.

Monumentum

Mithraeum of Duhok

There is no solid evidences of the finding of a Mithraic temple in Duhok, Iraq.

Monumentum

Tauroctony from Absalmos

The relief depict several unusual scenes from Mithras’s myth.

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Taurocotony from Calvi Risorta

In this terracotta relief depicting Mithras as a bull killer found at Cales, now in Calvi Risorta, none of the usual accompanying animals is present.

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Mithras-Men from Rome

Relief possibly depicting Mithras-Men holding a torch and a a bust of Luna on a crescent.

Socius

Martin Owen

I am a member of the Longthorpe Legion, a Living History group linked to our local museum that portrays the Romans in Britain, including a Temple to Mithras.

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