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The New Mithraeum Database

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Zodiacal bronze plaques from Ostia

Series of small bronze plaques depicting zodiac signs and planetary figures discovered in Ostia and possibly connected with the decoration of a Mithraic sanctuary.

Monumentum

Mithraic relief from Ostia

Relief featuring an enigmatic agricultural implement interpreted either as a scythe or an early type of plough.

Monumentum

Two marble heads of Mithras from Ostia

Two marble heads from Ostia, including a youthful figure wearing a Phrygian cap and another identified as Mithras-Helios.

Syndexios

Cresces

Administrator, probably a slave of Pater Alfius Severus, who dedicated the main altar of the Mitreo di Marino.

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Castrimoenium (Marino)

Marino is an Italian comune with 46,676 inhabitants located in the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital in Lazio.

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Mitreo di Marino

The Marino Mithraeum preserves one of the most elaborate painted cycles of Mithras’ myth, combining the tauroctony, planetary symbolism and scenes from the god’s sacred narrative.

Monumentum

Mitreo d’Ottaviano Zeno

A probable Mithraic sanctuary near Santa Maria in Domnica on the Caelian Hill, known from a group of dispersed reliefs formerly owned by Ottaviano Zeno.

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Tauroctony from Ottaviano Zeno

In this relief of Mithras as bull slayer, recorded in 1562 in the collection of A. Magarozzi, Cautes and Cautopates have been replaced by trees still bearing the torches.

Monumentum

Mitreo di Santa Maria Capua Vetere

One of Roman Italy’s most important Mithraic sanctuaries, the Mithraeum at S. Maria Capua Vetere preserves a remarkable painted cycle of initiation scenes, offering rare visual evidence for the ritual life of Roman Mithaism.

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Pontiae (Ponza)

The Pontiae islands, including modern Ponza, formed part of the Roman maritime landscape of Latium and preserve one of the most remarkable Mithraic sanctuaries of Roman Italy, renowned for its rare stucco zodiac and astral symbolism.

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Mitreo di Ponza

This Mithraic shrine on the island of Ponza is renowned for its exceptional stucco zodiac and astral symbolism linked to Roman Mithaism.

Locus

Pisa (Pisa)

Pisa is a city and comune in Tuscany, central Italy, straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea.

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Syracusae (Siracusa)

Syracuse is a city and municipality, capital of the free municipal consortium of the same name, located in the autonomous region of Sicily in Southern Italy.

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Aenaria (Ischia)

Ischia is a volcanic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea.

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Puteoli (Pozzuoli)

Puteoli, the great commercial harbour of Roman Italy, preserves evidence of the cosmopolitan maritime environments through which Mithraic cults circulated across the Mediterranean world.

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Grumentum (Grumento Nova)

Grumentum was an ancient Roman city in the centre of Lucania, in what is now the comune of Grumento Nova, c.

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Termini Himeraeae (Termini Imerese)

Termini Imerese is a town of the Metropolitan City of Palermo on the northern coast of Sicily, in Italy.

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Interamna Nahars (Terni)

Terni is a city in the southern portion of the region of Umbria, in Central Italy.

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Bononia (Bologna)

Bologna is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in northern Italy.

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