Roman senator and Pater Patrum who led the Olympii Mithraic community in fourth-century Rome.
Subtitle Late Roman senator who rose from pater to pater patrum in the Mithraic community of San Silvestro in Capite.
Equestrian pater patrorum whose dedication to Cautes attests the involvement of Rome’s elite in Mithraism.
Roman devotee of the elusive Mithraic deity Nabarze, possibly identical with the associate of the Egyptian priest Arnouphis.
Roman statesman, scholar and Neo-Pythagorean philosopher associated with astrology, divination and ancient cosmology.
Slave and vilicus in the household of Tiberius Claudius Livianus, linked to the earliest known Mithraic tauroctony.
Imperial slave and an overseer of the Imperial estates who dedicated a Tauroctony to the Invincible god Sol.
Late Roman senator and governor of Numidia whose inscriptions present him as a Mithraic pater and initiate in several mystery cults.
Roman senator, public augur and Mithraic pater attested among the aristocratic dedications associated with the Vatican Phrygianum in 376 CE.
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.
Pater patrum and magister of the Mithraic community associated with the Esquiline Mithraeum.
Senator, imperial legate and commander from Poetovio, whose dedications to Mithras link the Danubian and African diffusion of the cult.
A devotee of Mithras who dedicated an altar for the health of Commodus alongside his father, a procurator castrensis, in Rome.
Roman emperor from 253 to 260, he was taken captive by Shapur I of Persia. He was thus the first emperor to be captured as a prisoner of war.
First Roman emperor of African origin and founder of the Severan dynasty, which ruled the empire for over four decades.
The last pagan emperor of Rome, closely associated with Mithras and Neoplatonic interpretations of the Sun God.
Roman emperor whose ceremonial reception of Tiridates I of Armenia established one of the earliest recorded links between Mithras and the Roman imperial court.
Roman emperor traditionally regarded as the first ruler initiated into the Mysteries of Mithras.
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.
