The New Mithraeum Database

The starting point of this study of the initiation into the cult of Mithras are the 462 sites where traces of the cult have been found to date. They form the framework of the study.

The Mithras cult first became evident in Rome towards the end of the first century AD. During the next two centuries, it spread to the frontiers of the Western empire. Energetically suppressed by the early Christians, who frequently constructed their chur…

Papers of the international conference "Roman Mithraism: the Evidence of the Small Finds". Tienen 7-8 November 2001.

A bronze plaque records the existence of a mithraeum at Virunum that collapsed and was rebuilt by members of the community.

TNMM401

Blastia dedicated an altar to Mithras and Silvanus in Emona.

This inscription reveals the names of 36 cultori of Sentinum, one of whom bears the title of pater leonum.

TNMM570 – CIMRM 688

Actes du 2e Congrès International, Téhéran, du 1er au 8 septembre 1975. (Actes du Congrès, 4). Éditions Brill, collection. Acta Iranica.

Offered the famous Tauroctony of Osterburken to the unconquerable sun god Mithras.

This fragment of the base of a statue from Tarragona, Spain, bears an inscription which appears to be dedicated to the invincible Mithras.

TNMM743 – CIMRM 806

This inscription by a certain Memmius Placidus is the first ever found signed by a Heliodromus.

TNMM512