The New Mithraeum Database

This mithraic communion from Mérida shows three persons at table with other people standing besides, one of them with a bull's head on a plate.

TNMM300 – CIMRM 782

Con motivo del descubrimiento de un mitreo en Mitra en Cabra, charlamos con uno de los referentes del mitraísmo, Jaime Alvar. Con él, repasamos los testimonios hasta hoy conocidos y las especificidades del culto mitraico en Hispania.

This fragmented altar was found in two pieces that Ana Osorio Calvo has recently brought together.

TNMM586

Small white marble altar made in honour of Mithras found at San Albín, Mérida.

TNMM426 – CIMRM 796

The Isis of Merida is covered by a long dress that reaches down to her feet.

TNMM424

The lack of attributes and its decontextualisation prevent us from attributing a specific Mithraic attribution to this small Venus pudica from Mérida.

TNMM429 – CIMRM 785

This nude male figure, found at Cerro de San Albín, Mérida, has been identified as Cautes.

TNMM421

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…

Pater Patrum at Emerita Augusta

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.