The New Mithraeum Database

Les Pensées pour moi-même ont été rédigées en grec par l’empereur romain Marc-Aurèle, entre 170 et 180 ap. J.C., souvent pendant ses campagnes militaires. Elles étaient à l’origine destinées à être détruites à la mort de son auteur. Mais…

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.

Owner of www.mithraeum.org and the Mithras and Mithraeum discussion lists on Groups.io. Co-founder of Nova Roma and the founder of Byzantium Novum.

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 concluding book of Apuleius’ Golden Ass (or Metamorphoses), where Lucius, the story’s protagonist, undergoes initiation into the mysteries of Isis and Osiris.

Passage from Plutarch’s Life of Pompey, recounting the rise, power, and insolence of the Cilician pirates before Pompey’s campaign to suppress them.

Lifelong pater of Mithras in Anazarbus, holding the civic title Father of the Homeland.

Imperial slave who donated an altar to Mithras for the benefit of the emperor Caracalla.

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

Governor of Numidia between 284 and 285, he dedicated several monuments in Numidia to Mithras and other gods.

Senator and Pater Sacrorum of Mithras, who consecrated several monuments in Rome in the late 4th century.

Centurion who engraved a plaque to Sol for the health of the Emperor Antoninus Pius and his sons.

Prefect, probably of Cohors II Tungrorum, who dedicated an altar to the invincible sun god Mithras in Camboglanna, Britannia.

Slave of a certain Macus Iulius Eunicus, Hermes dedicated a monument to Silvanus found in the Mitreo della Planta Pedis.

Procurator of the emperor, Porcius Verus erected a relief of Mithras found in Ruše, Slovenia..

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

Greek-speaking member of the community of Mithras followers from Apulum in the 2nd century.

Dioscorus is a freedman from the Greek-speaking part of the Empire who dedicated an altar to the invincible Mythra.

Breton centurion stationed in Volubilis, Mauretania Tingitana, known for his loyalty to Mithras and Commodus.