The New Mithraeum Database in Italy

The sculpture of Aion from Florence, Italy, has the usual serpent, coiled six times on its body, whose head rests on that of the god of eternal time.

TNMM330 – CIMRM 665

A dinner scene with Sabina from the Catacombe dei Santi Marcellino e Pietro, near Rome, may have been commissioned by a follower of Mithras.

TNMM342

Luna riding a biga in the Mithraeum of Santa Capua Vetere.

TNMM193 – CIMRM 184

This small altar found in Rome depicts the god Sol with five rays around his head.

TNMM329 – CIMRM 432, 433

Tauroctony from a gemme, printed on Le gemme antiche figurate di Leonardo Agostini.

TNMM228

The intarsium of Sol found in the Mithraeum of Santa Prisca is composed of several varieties of marble.

TNMM385

The red ceramic vessel from Lanuvium shows Mithra carrying the bull, followed by the dog, and the Tauroctony on the opposite side.

TNMM368 – CIMRM 207

The relief of Sol was found during the construction of Piazza Dante in Rome in 1874.

TNMM384 – CIMRM 354, 355

This sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull was bequeathed to the Republic of Venice in 1793 by Ambassador Girolamo Zulian.

TNMM383 – CIMRM 584

Except for the serpent, the sculpture of the taurcotony found on the Esquiline Hill lacks the usual animals that accompany Mithras in sacrifice.

TNMM380 – CIMRM 352

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull found on the Esquiline Hill includes two additional scenes with Mithras and two other figures.

TNMM382 – CIMRM 350, 351

The relief of Mithras being born from the rock of the Esquiline shows the young god naked, as usual, with a torch and a dagger in his hands.

TNMM381 – CIMRM 353

The Mitreo dei Marmi Colorati takes its name after the discovery of a black-and-white mosaic of Pan fighting with Eros.

TNMM233

This Mithraic temple, now disappeared, is known thanks to the numerous remains recorded since 1594 in the 'Memorie di varie antichità trovate in diversi luoghi della città di Roma'.

TNMM99

The Mithraeum of Carminiello ai Mannesi was installed in two rooms of a 1st century BC domus.

TNMM358

The Tauroctony relief of Mithras killing the bull walled in the Cortile of the Belvedered, Vatican City, was found by Fagan near Ostia.

TNMM363 – CIMRM 321

The Mithraeum of the Crypta Balbi was locted in the middle of a densely populated insula near the theatre of Cornelius Balbus.

TNMM183

This sculpture of Mithras sacrificing the bull was found in the Quirinal and is now on display in the Musei Capitolini.

TNMM321 – CIMRM 385

The marble Tauroctony of Asciano, Siena, was donated by Franz Cumont to the Academia Belgica, Rome.

TNMM319 – CIMRM 662

This black marble of Mithras killing the Bull has belonged to the sculptor Carlo Albacini.

TNMM297 – CIMRM 557