The New Mithraeum Database

Video report in Hungarian by the Aquincum Museum on the Mithraic discoveries in the region.

Video report of the Italian TV channel La 7 about Mithraism made in the Mithraeum of the Circo Massimo.

Video reportage about the city and the Mithraeum of Jajce.

Public lecture by David Ulansey on Mithraism, based on his book The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries: Cosmology and Salvation in the Ancient World.

Our modern understanding of Mithraism, though, depends largely on a few short (and very problematic) literary mentions, mostly written by the cult’s Christian rivals.

Twelve centuries separate the decline of Roman Mithraism from the dawn of Freemasonry. Twelve centuries during which the mysteries of Mithras have remained more secret than ever.

The museum that houses the temple of Mithras has become the most visited Roman space in the city since it opened.

The ancient Roman worshippers were likely in altered states of consciousness.

Head of Greek marble (H. 0.46).

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Both excavations revealed fragments of red pottery and thin blackglazed pottery.

Two altars, found (1822) on either side of the preceding No.

CIL VII 543; MMM II No.

Fragment of a white marble statue (H. 0.35 Br. 0.27).

Square base, found in 1868 "sotto la cascata di Sardagna a S.

About the next two monuments, no further data are known (cf. MMM II 485 No. 78c, bis): 1) In Palazzo Barberini (Zoega, Abh., 148 No.8).

White marble relief (H. and Br. about 1.20).

Terracotta relief with the representation of Victoria, slaying a bull.

Fragment of a small, white marble relief (H. 0.11 Br. 0.13 D. 0.05).