The New Mithraeum Database in Italy

The Mithraeum was found in one of the rooms of the Horrea built in the years 120 - 125 AD. The installation of the shrine may have taken place in the first half of the third century.

TNMM10 – CIMRM 300, 301

The Mithraeum of Lucretius Menander was installed in the early 3rd century in an alley to the east of a Hadrianic building named after the solar god temple.

TNMM6 – CIMRM 224

The brick altar of the Mithraeum Menander was covered with marble slabs bearing a crescent and an inscription.

TNMM534 – CIMRM 225

The lion-headed god is standing on a globe encicled by two crossed bands on which five pearls.

TNMM322 – CIMRM 543

The Mithraeum in the Chapel of the Three Naves was not linked to the cult of Mithras until recently because of a mosaic showing a pig, in the belief that it was an animal unfit for consumption in a temple of Eastern origin.

TNMM533

The relief marble of Mithras sacrifying the bull, exposed on the Hermitage Museum comes from Rome.

TNMM308 – CIMRM 603, 604

Mithras rock-born from Villa Giustiniani was holding a bunch of grapes in its raised right hand instead of a torch, probably due to a restoration.

TNMM124 – CIMRM 590, 591

This marble basin found in the Mithraeum of the Footprint bears an inscription of a certain Umbilius Criton, associated with a monumental tauroctonic sculpture also found in Ostia.

TNMM531 – CIMRM 275

The Mitreo dei Castra Peregrinorum was discovered under the church of Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rome.

TNMM17

The Felicissimo Mithraeum has a floor mosaic depicting the seven mithraic grades.

TNMM166 – CIMRM 299

This monument was erected on the occasion of the elevation of a member to the Mithraic grade of Perses.

TNMM517 – CIMRM 402

The altar includes a slab with an inscription for the salvation of two emperors.

TNMM515 – CIMRM 273

The floor of the central aisle of the Mithraeum of the Footprint in Ostia has a mosaic depicting a snake and a footprint.

TNMM94 – CIMRM 272

The head of Mithras had seven holes made for fastening rays.

TNMM145 – CIMRM 280

The Mithraeum of the terms of Mithras takes its name from being installed in the service area of the Baths of Mithras.

TNMM1 – CIMRM 229

Marcus Valerius Maximus records in this inscription his knowledge of astrology as well as the name of his wife.

TNMM494 – CIMRM 708

This monument to the invincible god Mithras was inscribed on the façade of the church of Aiello deil Friuli, Aquileia.

TNMM504 – CIMRM 745

The relief of the Mithraic tauroctony of Aquiliea is currently on display in Vienna.

TNMM154 – CIMRM 736

The marble altar mentions Vettius Agrorius Praetextatus as Pater Sacrorum and Patrum and his wife Aconia Fabia Paulina.

TNMM273 – CIMRM 420

It bears an inscription repeated on each side of the podia.

TNMM492 – CIMRM 251