The New Mithraeum

Terracotta relief with the representation of Victoria, slaying a bull.

Part of a naked Venus (H. 0.095).

Marble triangle (L. 0.36 D. 0.135) with a semicircular opening in the middle.

Upper part of a small hekataion found in the Mithraeum of S. Prisca.

A set of painted Latin hymns and ritual acclamations survives on the walls of the Mithraeum of S. Prisca, accompanying scenes of leones and the sacred meal.

On the under layer remnants of other painted persons are visible.

Continuation of the frescoes depicting an initiation into the Mithras cult, where two attendants present a repast to Mithras and Sol.

Small marble base, which seems to have been found in the same sanctuary during former excavations.

Colini in Epigraphica, I, 1939, 138f, No.

Very small relief with the representation of Mithras, slaying the bull.

Two small fragments of a relief with the representation of Mithras tauroctone and the two torchbearers in a grotto.

During the excavations of the Dolichenum on the Aventine in 1935, two Mithraic monuments have been discovered and besides statues of Sol, Luna, Venus, Silvanus and Hercules.

Basis marmorea anno 1764 in monte Aventino effossa.

Small marble relief (H. 0.20 Br. 0.25 D.0.06).

On the Aventine, between the Eastern side of S. Saba’s and the Via Salvator, there is a Roman building, which probably was used as a Mithraeum in the end of the 4th century.

Pieces of roughly worked stone may point at a representation of Mithras' rock- birth.

Marble relief of Mithras as a bull-killer.

Ghislanzoni, 324f and fig.

Fresco of Mithras found in an arched niche above the right bench of the Baths of Caracalla’s Mithraeum in Rome.

Fragments of a marble relief of Sol, which probably served as a fenster.