The New Mithraeum Database in Italy

In 1938 this Mithraeum was found 3.45 mtrs under the Basilica of S. Lorenzo in Damaso, in a cellar near the Sacrament's Chapel.

TNMM438 – CIMRM 421

This relief of Mithras slaying the bull was erected in Piazza del Campidoglio, moved to Villa Borghese and is now in the Louvre Museum.

TNMM131 – CIMRM 415, 416

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This inscription to Mithras Invencible was dedicated by a certain Apronianus in 172 is currently lost.

TNMM590 – CIMRM 647

The relief of Mithras killing the bull of Stefano Rotodon preserves part of his polycromy and depicts two unusual figures: Hesperus and an owl.

TNMM365

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This altar bears an inscription to the health of the emperor Commodus by a certain Marcus Aurelius, his father and two other fellows.

TNMM542 – CIMRM 510

This plaque, now on display in the British Museum, may have come from the Aldobrandini Mithraeum in Ostia.

TNMM119 – CIMRM 234, 235

This unusual piece depicts Mithras slaying the bull on one side and the Gnostic god Abraxas on the other.

TNMM544 – CIMRM 2364

This syncretic amulet depicting Abraxas and the word MIΘPAZ was once displayed in the Cappello Museum of Venice.

TNMM548

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