The New Mithraeum

Penthelic marble statue of a standing torchbearer in Eastern attire, cross-legged, with head and torch arm broken off, probably 2nd century A.D., found at Antium (modern Anzio).

This marble relief depicting Mithras killing the bull, found at Porto d’Anzio in 1699 and now lost, is known from a engraving by del Torre.

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Two marble busts (H. 0.96), found at Formiae and obtained in 1902 by the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek at Copenhague (Inv. Nos 1905/6) from the Villa Borghese collection.

Second terracotta tablet found at Calvi depicting Mithras killing the bull, now at Berlin, Antiquarium.

In this terracotta relief depicting Mithras as a bull killer found at Cales, now in Calvi Risorta, none of the usual accompanying animals is present.

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Of two persons only the heads and parts of the white tunica are visible.

The next two scenes have become indistinguishable.

This fresco, found in the Santa Capua Vetere Mithraeum, depicts what seems to be an initiate falling forward because someone is pressing down on his shoulders.

Fresco depicting an initiation scene from the Mithraeum of Capua Vetere.

Two persons standing behind each other.

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A person in red attire.

Fresco (H. 1.08 Br. 0.95) on the South wall above the beginning of the podium.

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This small Greek dedication from the island of Aenaria invokes Helios Mithras under the epithet “unconquered”.

This marble dedication from Puteoli was offered to Sol Invictus and the genius of the colony by Claudius Aurelius Rufinus together with his wife and son.

This lost Mithraic relief, formerly kept near the church of the Santissima Annunziata in Naples, was probably a large tauroctony associated with the area of Puteoli or Pausilypon.