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The New Mithraeum Database of Italy

Mithraic monuments, temples and other objects related to Mithras from Italy.

Monumentum

Bench mosaics of the Mitreo delle Sette Sfere
Diana-Luna, Mercurius, Jupiter, Saturn, Venus and Mars are depicted in the mosaics on the benches of this mithraeuma.
TNMM609 – CIMRM 241
Monumentum

Zodiac signs on the Mitreo delle Sette Sfere
The rich mosaics of the Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres include the the signs of the Zodiac.
TNMM610 – CIMRM 242
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Albergo Constanzi
Only a fragment of this marble group of Mithras killing the bull remains.
TNMM606 – CIMRM 535, 536
deum sibi // sua pecunia
Monumentum

Inscription on restauration of the Mitreo de Carsulae
Marble plaque with inscription of a sacerdos probatus to Sol and the god Invictus Mithras.
TNMM484
Soli et invicto [deo Mithrae]. / Ex permissu san[ctissimi] / ordinis dec[ur(ionum)] / Sex(tus) Egnatius Primitivus / sacerdos probatus sevir / Aug(ustalis) Casuenti et Carsulis, / q(uaestor) arcae Aug…
Mithraeum

Mitreo di Carsulae
Epigraphic monuments reveal the presence of a Mithraeum in the ancient municiple of Carsulae, in Umbria.
TNMM485
Mithraeum

Mitreo di Santa Prisca
The Mithraeum of Santa Prisca houses remarkable frescoes showing the initiates in procession.
TNMM12 – CIMRM 476
Monumentum

Tauroctony 593
This is the earliest sculpture of Mithras killing the bull known to date.
TNMM164 – CIMRM 593, 594
Alcimus T. Cl(audi) Liviani ser(vus) vilic(us) S(oli) M(ithrae) v(otum) s(olvit) d(onum) d(edit)
Monumentum

Inscription of Kastos father and son
Second Mithraic monument dedicated by the Kastos family, found not far from the Arco di S. Lazzaro, in Rome.
TNMM449 – CIMRM 474
Διί 'Ηλίω Μίθρα / άνεικήτω Κάστος / πατήρ καί Κάστος / ύιός / ύιός ίερός κόραξ.
Monumentum

Altar with inscription of Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale
This is one of several marble inscriptions made by a certain Caelius Ermeros, who was the antistes of the Mithraeum of the Imperial Palace.
TNMM461 – CIMRM 259
C. Caelius Hermaeros / antistes huius loci / fecit / sua pec(unia).
Monumentum

Mithras pantocrator of the Villa Altieri
This unusual representation of Mithras standing on a bull was kept in the Casino di Villa Altieri sul Monte Esquilino until the 19th century.
TNMM475 – CIMRM 334