For those that are ready to wield the Herculean club, conquering inner and outer labors! Just like the Homeric Odyssey is a sacred text allegorizing the journey of the soul to Penelope, the ...

Rock-cut tauroctony forming the cult image of Mithraeum I at Doliche, later deliberately defaced by Christian iconoclasts.

Aelia Arisuth may have been associated with a Mithraic community.

Known from a dedication to Dominus Invictus in Malaca, he may represent an early and uncertain witness to Mithraism in ...

Known from a disputed inscription discovered near Mediolanum, she has been tentatively linked to a Mithraic dedication, ...

Severan governor and commander of Legio VII Gemina, associated with the religious milieu that fostered the rise of Mithraic communities in north-western Hispania. The inscription has traditionally ...

Honoratus of the dendrophori of Ostia who dedicated a statue of Terra Mater in AD 142. The title honoratus appears in several Ostian collegia and is generally understood as a mark of distinction ...

Mithras, shown in Oriental dress and a flowing chlamys, plunges a dagger into the neck of the bull while restraining the animal beneath him. A raven appears on the god’s cloak, while a dog and a ...

An imperial freedman who restored the Mithraeum of Sabazeus for the Mithraic brethren. Aurelius Crescens was an imperial freedman active in the Mithraic community of Ostia. A small inscribed cippus ...

Fine ceramic cup discovered in 1994 during the excavation of the Mithraeum of Octodurus (Martigny), one of the rare Roman sanctuaries in Switzerland dedicated to the god Mithras. The vessel was ...

Roman citizen of Ostia who re-consecrated an earlier marble statue to Sol Invictus Mithras during the second century CE. Titus Atilius Glyco was a Roman citizen of Ostia, identified by his filiation ...

Marble slab walled into the ledge of bench p in the S. Prisca Mithraeum, with a brief dedication to the two Invicti domini Augusti. Graffito on the outside of the left wall of the niche in the S.