To the great gods, Ulpius Egnatius Faventinus, clarissimus, public augur of the Roman people of the Quirites, sacred father and herald of the god Sol invincible Mithra, arch-herald of the god Liber, ...

Monuments, inscriptions and artefacts related to Mithras and his cult.

The ara comes from Rome, from the house of Francesco della Porta. The inscription confirms that it was erected by two summagistri, Gaius Lucretius Mnestrer and Marcus Aemilius Philetus.

From the municipium of Dianae comes an altar 82 cm high and 47 cm wide: here is a dedication to a series of deities from the traditional Roman pantheon, such as Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Juno Regina, ...

Many scholarly and often brilliant hypotheses have been put forward over the decades to identify these ‘inventors’. One of the most famous and seductive is that of the astrologer Balbillus as the ...

On ne saurait qu'applaudir à l'idée qu'a eue V. J. Walters de faire le point des découvertes mithriaques en Gaule romaine. Son projet reste dominé par le découpage administratif des « Roman provinces ...

Legend. Preserved: Shrine partially preserved or reconstructed near its original site. Documented but unfound: Shrine recorded in sources but not physically located or destroyed. Disputed: Site ...

TNMM 712 CIMRM 1322. Fragments of an altar in sandstone (H. 0.22 Br. 0.40 D. 0.13) show in its upper part a patera. In the lower part of another altar (H. 0.58 Br. 0.285-0.35 D. 0.17-0.22) are still ...

TNMM 611 CIMRM 14. A text from an eulogy on St. Eugen of Trapezos (1) composed by Constantinus, son of Lucites, tells how the saint, at the time of Diocletian, with two companions, destroyed a Mithras ...

The vilicus Velox inscription, engraved on a marble slab, was first reported in 1720, when it was housed in the Casa Bertoli in Aquileia. No mithraeum has yet been discovered at the site, but the ...

An underground room, discovered between Wouldham and Burham old church on the East side of the Medway (1894). The vaulted cave (H. 4.70 Br. 7.50 D. 4.70), hewn out in the rock, is of an elliptic ...

Jaime Alvar has set the standard with his trilogy on the cults of Mithras, Isis, Magna Mater and Atis in Hispania. His work is now essential for understanding this phenomenon in the Iberian Peninsula ...