The New Mithraeum Database

Emerita Augusta was founded in 25 BC by order of the Emperor Augustus to protect a pass and a bridge over the Guadiana River. The city became the capital of the province of Lusitania and one of the most important cities in the Roman Empire.

Two excerpts from the ’Life of Commodus’ in Lampridius’ Historia Augusta, dating from the 4th century CE.

Pater Patrum at Emerita Augusta

Centurio frumentarius probably from Tarraco, who served in the Legio VII Gemina located in Emerita Agusta.

Jaime Alvar hace en este libro un estudio exhaustivo de las condiciones en las que se produce la introducción de Mitra en Hispania, a finales del siglo I d. C., en un momento sorprendentemente prematuro en relación con otras regiones del occidente latin…

Gaius dedicated an altar to the god Invictus in Emerita Augusta in the 2nd century.

Garlic merchant, probably from Lusitania, who dedicated an altar to Cautes in Tarraconensis.

Procurator of Tarraconensis, he dedicated a monument to the Invincible God, Isis and Serapis in Asturica Augusta.

Laurent Bricault has revolutionised Mithraic studies with the exhibition The Mystery of Mithras. Meet this professor in Toulouse for a fascinating look at the latest discoveries and what lies ahead.

Hector erected an altar to Mithras in Emerita Augusta ’by means of a divine vision’, something unusual in Hispania.

For the health of this man, a small altar was dedicated to the god Invictus in the Emerita Augusta.

Although the site at Cerro de San Albín is not a Mithraeum, archaeologists have found several monuments related to the cult of Mithras.

TNMM29 – CIMRM 772

Solder of the Legio II Augusta who dedicated a monument to Mithras Invictus in Isca.

Firmidius Severinus was a soldier who served in the Legio VIII Augusta for 26 years.

Donated a krater with weekday gods to Mithras god and king in Augusta Treverorum.

Soldier recruited in Arausio (Orange), emeritus of the Legion II Augusta.

A slave of a certain Flavius Baeticus, Quintio dedicated an altar to the health of a companion.

On the occasion of the discovery of a Mithraeum in Cabra, Spain, we talk to Jaime Alvar, a leading figure in the field of Mithraism. With him, we examine the testimonies known to date and the peculiarities of the cult of Mithras in Hispania.

Centurio of the Legio III Augusta, Florus dedicated an altar to the unconquered Sol Mithras in El Gahra.

Textile merchant from Augusta Treverorum and Pater of his community, he left testimony of his cult to Mithras in the 3rd century.