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The New Mithraeum

Community dedicated to the study, disclosure and reenactment of the Mysteries of Mithras since 2004.

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Joined December 2020
 
 
November 2022
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Tauroctonia del Cortile del Belvedere

White marble relief depicting Mithras slaying the bull, dedicated by Atimetus.

 
November 2022
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Mitreo di Santa Prisca

The Mithraeum of Santa Prisca houses remarkable frescoes showing the initiates in procession.

 
November 2022
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Mitreo di San Clemente

The Mithraeum under the Basilica of San Clemente made part of a notable Roman house.

 
This is a great Mithraeum and a obliged visit if you go to Roma. It is located below San Clemente Church in the center of the city. You are transported back two millennia walking down a few steps. Worth it!
 
November 2022
Monumentum

Mitreo di Angera

The Mithraeum of Angera (or Wolf's Den as this cave is popularly called) is the only temple devoted to Mithras known to date in Lombardy.

 
November 2022
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Gaius Valerius Iulianus

Gaius Valerius Iulianus was a lion who erected an altar to Cautopates in Statio, the present-day Angera, with his brother Marcus.

 
November 2022
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Marcus Statius Niger

Marcus Statius Niger was a lion who erected an altar to Cautopates in Statio, the present-day Angera, with his brother Gaius.

 
November 2022
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Inscription of two lions from Angera

This marble base found in Angera in 1868 bears the inscription of two people who reached the degree of Leo.

 
November 2022
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Tauroctony of the Loggia Scoperta

Currently in the Musei Vaticani, this Tauroctony includes Mithras's birth restored as Venus anaduomene.

 
November 2022
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Valerius Marinus

Valerius Marinus dedicated an image in Ocriculum.

 
November 2022
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Inscription on restauration of the Mitreo de Carsulae

Marble plaque with inscription of a sacerdos probatus to Sol and the god Invictus Mithras.

 
November 2022
Monumentum

Mitreo del Circo Massimo

The Mithraeum of the Circus Maximus was discovered in 1931 during work carried out to create a storage area for the scenes and costumes of the Opera House within the Museums of Rome building.

 
Good information
 
November 2022
Syndexios

Gaius Victorius Victorinus

Centurion of the Legio VII Gemina Antoniana Pia Felix who erected the only known mithraeum at Lucus Augusti to date.

 
November 2022
Monumentum

Mithräum von Königsbrunn

The Mithraeum of Koenigsbrunn is the only one preserved in the ancient Roman province of Rhaetia, current Bavaria.

 
November 2022
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Tauroctony of Santa Maria Capua Vetere

The main fresco of the Mithraeum of Santa Maria Capua Vetere portrays Mithras slaughtering a white bull.

 
You might be interested in a digital reconstruction that I did of the 2nd c. AD tauroctony sculpture in the British Museum. I used this fresco in Capua as the guide for reconstructing the clothing patterns and colors on the sculpture. https://twitter.com/chapps/status/1482147025185480706
 
Thank you for sharing it and congratulations for your beautiful and interesting work. Sincerely, G.
 
November 2022
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Thank you for sharing it and congratulations for your beautiful and interesting work. Sincerely, G.

In Monumentum
 

Tauroctony of Santa Maria Capua Vetere

The main fresco of the Mithraeum of Santa Maria Capua Vetere portrays Mithras slaughtering a white bull.

 
 
November 2022
Monumentum

Mithras taurophorus of Ptuj

The sculpture of Mithras carrying the bull includes an inscription on its base.

 
November 2022
Syndexios

Theodorus

Scrutator of the customs of the Poetovio station, Theodorus erected an altar to Mithras following a vision.

 
November 2022
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Altar with inscription and symbolic figures from Ptuj

This altar from Ptuj, present-day Poetovio, is decorated with various Mithraic animals such as a tortoise, a cock and a crow and other objects.

 
November 2022
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Mithraeum I of Ptuj

The Mithraeum I of Ptuj contains the foundation, altars, reliefs and cult imagery found in it.

 
November 2022
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Mithraeum II of Ptuj

Mithraeum II was found at Ptuj at a distance of 20 m south of the Mithraeum I in 1901.