The New Mithraeum Database

Callimorphus dedicated this image of the sun god to the invincible sun 'Mythra'.

TNMM35 – CIMRM 17

The small medallion depicts three scenes from the life of Mithras, including the Tauroctony. It may come from the Danube area.

TNMM141

This magnificently illustrated publication renews the Mithraic dossier on the basis of concrete data, with caution and penetration. Marino's discovery is disconcerting and rekindles the controversy about the order in which bands should be read.

Actes du 2e Congrès International, Téhéran, du 1er au 8 septembre 1975. (Actes du Congrès, 4). Éditions Brill, collection. Acta Iranica.

This medallion belongs to a specific category of rounded pieces found in other provinces of the Roman world.

TNMM430 – CIMRM 2187

This tauroctony may have come from Hermopolis and its style suggests a Thraco-Danubian origin.

TNMM431 – CIMRM 105

This silver amulet depicts Abraxas on one side and the first verses of the Book of Genesis in Hebrew on the other.

TNMM549

Caesarea, also known historically as Mazaca, was an ancient city in what is now Kayseri, Turkey.

Callimorphus was a cashier (arkarius) of the estates of Chresimus, steward of emperors.

Caesarea was first settled by the Phoenicians in the 4th century BC. In 63 BC, the Romans annexed the region and Caesarea became the seat of the Roman procurators.