The New Mithraeum Database

Jubilant dans le baroque aux confins de l'érotisme, du fantastique et de la mort, Les Métamorphoses d’Apulée (IIe siècle), seul roman latin dont nous possédions le texte intégral, racontent à la première personne les tribulations d’un naïf tr…

Latin writer, Platonic philosopher and rhetorician.

«Lecteur : attention tu ne t’ennuieras pas», nous prévient Apulée. Il était une fois un dénommé Lucius. Plutôt brave, un peu roublard. Notre Lucius, curieux de pénétrer les mystères de la magie, se retrouve transformé en âne, et bien des vi…

He was from Aphrodisias in Caria, where he erected a relief depicting Mithras killing the bull.

Tribune of the first cohort of Vardulli, he erected a mithraeum with his fellows in Brementium.

Pythagorean and mage.

Emperor Caracalla ordered one of Rome’s largest temples to the god Mithras to be built in the baths bearing his name.

He dedicated to the Emperor, for the worshipers of the god Mithras a sculpture in Stabiae.

Prefect of the First Cohort of Batavians Antoniniana.

Priest. He devoted an inscription found on the main altar of the Mitreo della Planta Pedis.

Dedicated a floor mosaic to his god.

Patron of the Ostian college of stuppatores

First African emperor of Rome (193 – 211), born in Leptis Magna, now Al-Khums in Libya.

Roman emperor of humble origin who reunited the Empire and repelled the pressure of barbarian invasions and internal revolts.

Fifth Roman emperor and last of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, reigning from 54 until his death in 68.

He dedicated an inscription to Cautes in Baetulo, near present-day Barcelona.

Dedicated an altar found in Gallia Narbonensis on the occasion of his elevation to the grade of Perses.

Roman emperor, son of the emperor and Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius.