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The New Mithraeum Database in Italy

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  • Monumentum

    CIMRM 418

    Reperta in ascensu Capitolii.

    TNMM996 – CIMRM 418

    Soli sacr(um) / C. Ducenius / C(aii) lib(ertus) Phoebus / filius Zenonis / natus in Suria / Nisybin liber / factus Romae / ex visu / v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito).
  • Monumentum

    Taurcotonia Dorée

    TNMM 365.

    TNMM153

  • Monumentum

    Procession Fresco from Santa Prisca

    Figures in procession, each representing a different grade of Mithraic initiation, labeled with their respective titles.

    TNMM115 – CIMRM 480

    Nama [patribus] / ab oriente / ad occidente(m) / tutela Saturni. [Na]ma H[eliodromis] / tute[l]a S[ol]is. [Na]ma Persis / tutela [Mer]curis. Nama L[e]on[i]b[us] j tutela Iovis. Nama Militibus j tutela…
  • Monumentum

    CIMRM 595

    Bronze statuette of Mithras in his characteristic bull-slaying pose, though only the god has been preserved.

    TNMM1111 – CIMRM 595

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of the Mitreo delle terme di Mitra

    The person who commanded the sculpture may have been M. Umbilius Criton, documented in the Mitreo della Planta Pedis.

    TNMM108 – CIMRM 230, 231

    Κρίτων / Ἀθηναιος / έποίει.
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony marble from Mitreo Fagan

    This sculpture of Mithras killing the bull was dedicated to the ’incomprehensible god’ by a certain priest called Gaius Valerius Heracles.

    TNMM106 – CIMRM 310, 311

    Sig(num) imdeprehensivilis dei G(aius) Valerius Heracles sacerdos s(ua) p(ecunia) p(osuit). L(ucius) Sextius Karus et.
  • Monumentum

    Frescoes with standing figures of Mitreo delle Pareti Dipinte

    The frescoes depict several figures dressed in different garments associated with the Mithraic degrees.

    TNMM104 – CIMRM 268

  • Monumentum

    Busto de Livia

    Lead.

    TNMM109

  • Monumentum

    Fresco scene from Mitreo of Santa Maria Capua Vetere

    Fresco showing a scene of initiation into the mysteries of Mithras in the Mithraeum of Santa Maria Capua Vetere.

    TNMM234 – CIMRM 188

  • Monumentum

    Frescoes of lions at Santa Prisca

    Procession of Leones carrying animals, bread, a krater, and other objects in preparation for a feast.

    TNMM498 – CIMRM 481, 482

    Nama Nicephoro leoni; nama Theodoro leoni. Nama Hel[io]doro leoni; Nama Gelasio leoni; Nama Phoebo leoni.
  • Monumentum

    CIMRM 597

    Fragment of a greyish marble relief depicting Mithras slaying the bull beneath a rocky grotto.

    TNMM1112 – CIMRM 597

  • Monumentum

    CIMRM 615

    Roman stone low-relief depicting Mithras as a bull-slayer, with the upper part of his head missing.

    TNMM1123 – CIMRM 615

  • Monumentum

    CIMRM 496

    Upper part of a goddess Fortuna of marble from Luna.

    TNMM1048 – CIMRM 496

  • Monumentum

    Stars of the Mitreo de Santa Maria Capua Vetere

    The vault of the Mithraeum in S. Capua Vetere is decorated with stars that have holes in their centers, which once held colorful glass decorations.

    TNMM175

  • Mithraeum

    Zeus Brontoon sanctuary near Villa dei Quintili

    Mithras and other oriental gods were worshipped in the shrine of Zeus near the Villa of the Quintilians in Rome.

    TNMM370 – CIMRM 634

  • Monumentum

    CIMRM 639

    Marble cippus with inscription.

    TNMM1145 – CIMRM 639

    Deo Soli envicto Mithre / Cautopati. . . . .. / D(eo) S(oli) e(nvicto) M(ithre) / Flavius .... / ...... / an. XIII. ... / cum omne . . . . / .... posuerunt.
  • Monumentum

    CIMRM 635

    Fragment of a marble relief (H. 0.27 Br. 0.38 D. 0.045).

    TNMM1141 – CIMRM 635

  • Mithraeum

    Mitreo di S. Silvestro in Capite

    This Mithraic temple, also known as the Mithraeum of the Olympii, dates to the 3rd century and was rediscovered in 15th-century Rome, but it has not been preserved.

    TNMM446 – CIMRM 399

  • Monumentum

    Fresco of Mithras

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

    TNMM1023 – CIMRM 459

 
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