Roman emperor at the age of 14, from 218 to his death in 222, Elagabalus was a main priest of the sun god Elagabal in Emesa.
Emperor Caracalla ordered one of Rome’s largest temples to the god Mithras to be built in the baths bearing his name.
Late Roman senator and governor of Numidia whose inscriptions present him as a Mithraic pater and initiate in several mystery cults.
Slave and vilicus in the household of Tiberius Claudius Livianus, linked to the earliest known Mithraic tauroctony.
Clarissimus knight and legate born in Poetovio that helped to disseminate the cult of Mithras in the African provinces.
One of the most eminent representatives of late antique pagan religiosity, combining high civic authority with deep initiation into multiple mystery traditions, including the cult of Mithras.
Supervisor of the imperial couriers who offered an elaborate votive altar and ritual insignia to Mithras in Rome under Commodus.
One of the clearest examples of the late Roman aristocracy’s involvement in the mysteries of Mithras and other initiatory cults during the fourth century.
Late Roman senator, public augur and Mithraic pater active in the second half of the fourth century CE.
He commissioned the main cult relief found in the Mithraeum of Circo Massimo.
Decurion and member of the same college as Aemilius Chrysanthus.
Freedman who dedicated the first monument mentioning a Pater.
He built the sacred area of the Mitreo del Circo Massimo at his own expense.
Vir perfectissimus and priest of Zeus Brontes and Hekate, he erected a mithraeum in Rome.
