Sextus Pompeius Maximus, 'father of the fathers'. Apparently he was the leader of the cult of Mithras in Ostia. We also learn that he was in charge of one of Ostia's ferry services. —Ostia-Antica.org ...

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

Restoring the Mysteries: A Conversation with Peter Mark Adams on his new book ‘Ritual & Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras’. Ernest Renan suggested that without the rise of Christianity, we might ...

Mithraeum I, found between Bad Deutsch-Altenburg and Petronell, 40 km down the Danube from Vienna (Roman Vindobona), in 1852, in the neighbourhood of a quarry situated on the slope of a steep hill.

Interactive map highlighting most of the Mithras shrines, featuring descriptions and links to further information.

A certain Terentius Priscus Eucheta, who had been initiated and cured, thanks the invincible god Navarze [Nabarze] for granting his wish. Note that this text gives b(oti) for v(oti) and Navarze for ...

Over the last century or so, a great deal has been said about the god Mithras and his mysteries, which became known to the European world mainly through his Roman cultus during the Imperial Period.

This is the first Pater mentioned in an inscription known to date. This inscription mentions a Pater for the first known time. Soli / invicto Mithrae / T. Flavius Aug ...

Constructed by soldiers from the Carnuntum legion at the beginning of the 3rd century AD. Trapeziodal in shape, the southern and eastern sides of the shrine were hollowed out of the rock, with the ...

A powerful and wealthy man, founder of a mithraeum in the city of Aquincum of which he was the mayor. A generous euergete, this powerful and wealthy man, the mayor of Aquincum, may have been the owner ...

In 1935 during excavations, undertaken by the Fathers Augustines, a Mithraeum was discovered in the underground rooms of a notable house, situated under and behind the absis of S. Prisca's on the ...

At Merida a Mithraeum existed about 155 A.D. About the character and the construction of this sanctuary, no data are known, but many monuments were discovered, all kept in the Museo arqueologico ...