Both of them were discovered in 1609 in the foundations of the façade of the church of San Pietro, Rome. M(atri) d(eum) m(agnae) I(deae) / et Attidi meno/tyranno ...

In 1989, the Roman archaeologist and topographer Filippo Coarelli advanced the daring hypothesis that the proprietor of the Casa di Apuleio at Ostia was the same person as Apuleius of Madauros, the ...

The name of this domus comes from the fact that some authors once associated one of its mosaics with the cult of Mithras, a ...

Prefect of the First Cohort of Batavians Antoniniana. One of the three altars to Mithras found at the Mithraeum of Carrawburgh fort. Deo Inv(icto) M(ithrae) / L(ucius ...

Scholar, politician and a court astrologer to the Roman emperors Claudius, Nero and Vespasian. Ti. Claudius Balbillus was both the leading astrologer of the period in Rome and related by marriage, ...

Flavius Antistianus was a prominent figure in the Roman Mithraic cult. He held the distinguished title of pater patrum, suggesting his considerable influence and authority within the Mithraic ...

Centurio of the Legio III Augusta, Florus dedicated an altar to the unconquered Sol Mithras in El Gahra. Dédicace au Dieu Soleil Invaincu Mithra, par Iulius Florus, centurio (plutôt que miles) de la ...

He is Thrasyllus of Mendes an astrologer and philosopher whom Tiberius befriended during his self-imposed exile on Rhodes. Mendes was an ancient city in Nile Delta. Thrasyllus exercised great ...

King of the Greco-Iranian Kingdom of Commagene. Antiochus I Theos Dikaios Epiphanes Philorhomaios Philhellen (c. 86 - 31 BC), meaning Antiochos, the just, eminent god, friend of Romans and friend of ...

This altar was dedicated to Cautes by a certain Lucius in Baetulo (Badalona), near Barcino (Barcelona). K(auti) deo / L(ucius) Valer(ius) Monteius / v(otum) s(olvit ...

Praeses of the Noric Mediterranean province, of equestrian rank, restaured the Mithraeum of Virunum in 311. The inscription from Virunum was dedicated by Aurelius ...

Aurelius Mithres was a slave of an emperor who released him for his services. He was a strator (στράτωρ), which literally means a person who keeps, harnesses and cares for a horse for another person.