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The New Mithraeum Database in Italy

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Monumentum

Tauroctony of Macerata
The Macerata Tauroctony shows Mithra slaying the bull with the usual Pyrigian cap and six rays around his head.
TNMM392 – CIMRM 690, 691
[I]nvicto Propitio / Sal(vius) Novanio / [L]ucianus / d(onum) p(osuit)
Mithraeum

Mitreo di Felicissimo
The Mithraeum Felicissimus has a floor mosaic depicting the seven mithraic grades.
TNMM7 – CIMRM 299
Felicissimvs / ex voto f[ecit]
Monumentum

Petrogeny of San Clemente
Mithras birth from the knees upwards emerging from a rock and wearing as usual a Phrygian cap.
TNMM435 – CIMRM 344
Monumentum

Tauroctonia del Mitreo de Duino
TNMM194
Mithraeum

La grotta del Mitreo
The site was destroyed in the 5th century but some elements, including the benches, can still been seen.
TNMM39
Mithraeum

Mitreo presso Porta Romana
The Mithraeum near Porta Romana was connected to a Sacello, but the door was blocked.
TNMM41
Mithraeum

Mitreo delle Sette Porte
The name of the Mithraeum of the Seven Gates refers to the doors depicted in the mosaic that decorates the floor, symbolising the seven planets through which the souls of the initiates have to pass.
TNMM4 – CIMRM 287
Monumentum

Tauroctony from Domus del Mitreo of Tarquinia
Votive sculpture of Mithras sacrificing the bull from the Mithraeum of Tarquinia.
TNMM214
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Syracuse
The Mithra Tauroctonos from Syracuse, Sicily, is currently on display in the city's archaeological museum.
TNMM263 – CIMRM 163
Monumentum

Tauroctony from Vermaseren's private collection
Maarten Vermaseren acquired this rosso antico marble of Mithras slaying the bull in 1961.
TNMM376
Mithraeum

Mitreo di Vulci
The Mithraeum of Vulci is remarkable because of his high benches and the arches below them.
TNMM20
Monumentum

Tauroctony found under the Palazzo Montecitorio (CIMRM 430)
This relief was found under the Palazzo Montecitorio, in Rome, and bought by the Liebighaus at Frankfort.
TNMM256 – CIMRM 430
Mithraeum

Domus del Mitreo of Tarquinia
The discovery of the Mithraeum of Tarquinia is due to the Department for Protection of Cultural Heritage of the Carabinieri, who noticed some clandestine excavations near the Ara della Regina.
TNMM229
Monumentum

Tauroctony in the British Museum
The sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull was transported from Rome to London by Charles Standish in 1815.
TNMM328 – CIMRM 592
Monumentum

Cautes fresco from Mitreo di Santa Maria Capua Vetere
In the Mithraeum of S. Capua Veteres, Cautes stands between two laurel trees.
TNMM254 – CIMRM 182
Monumentum

Two-sided relief of Fiano Romano
The marble shows Mithras slaying the bull, on one side, and Sol and Mithras feasting on a bull skin, on the other.
TNMM151 – CIMRM 641
Monumentum

Second Petrogeny of Santo Stefano Rotondo
The second statue of Mithras rock-birth was found in the Mitreo di Santo Stefano Rotondo shows a childish Mitras emerging from the rock.
TNMM364
Mithraeum

Mitreo del Campidoglio «lo perso»
This temple of Mithras on the north side of the Capitoline Hill in Rome no longer exists.
TNMM24 – CIMRM 414
Monumentum

Head of Mithras from Santo Stefano Rotondo
The head was part of a stucco relief of the Tauroctony found under the church of Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rome
TNMM165
Monumentum

Heracles captures the Golden Hind of Artemis
Relief of Heracles/Hercules capturing the Golden Hind of Artemis.
TNMM326