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The New Mithraeum Database

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Monumentum

CIMRM 293

Marble statue of a standing woman in a himation, pierced between the feet for a water pipe. Fragmentary and possibly representing a water nymph. From the Mithraeum delle Sette Porte, Ostia.

 
Monumentum

Petrogeny from Florence

The sculpture of the birth of Mithras in Florence included the head of Oceanus.

 
Monumentum

Tauroctony from Mauls

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull at Mauls in Gallia cisalpina is a paradigmatic example of the so-called Rhine-type Tauroctony.

 
Locus

Luna

Carrara is a town and comune in Tuscany, in northern Italy, of the province of Massa and Carrara, and notable for the white or blue-grey marble quarried there.

 
Locus

Locri Epizephyrii

Epizephyrian Locris, also known as Locri Epizephyrii or simply Locri, was an ancient Greek city in Southern Italy.

 
Monumentum

Tauroctony relief from Villa Borghese

This is one of the three reliefs depicting Mithras killing the bull that the Louvre Museum acquired from the Roman Villa Borghese collection.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 667

A marble head in the Uffizi Gallery, long interpreted as a “dying Alexander,” but probably representing Mithras tauroctonos.

 
Monumentum

Mitreo di Sutri

The Mithraeum of Sutri was built inside a rocky hill that also hosted the Roman theatre of the city.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 625

Marble inscription recording the dedication of a cult image to the unconquered Mithras by a certain pater Valerius Marinus from Rome.

 
Monumentum

Tauroctony from the Loggia Scoperta

Currently in the Musei Vaticani, this Tauroctony includes Mithras’s birth restored as Venus anaduomene.

 
Monumentum

Tauroctony from Santa Prisca

Even if only a few fragments remain, it is very likely that the main niche of the Mitreo di Santa Prisca contained the usual representation of Mithras killing the bull.

 
Monumentum

Mitreo di San Silvestro in Capite

This Mithraic temple, also known as the Mithraeum of the Olympii, dates to the 3rd century and was rediscovered in 15th-century Rome, but it has not been preserved.

 
Monumentum

Inscription of Olympus to his grandfather

This monument is the only one still available from the disappeared Mithraeum in Piazza S. Silvestro in Capite.

 
Monumentum

Aion (?) from Janiculum Hill

Roman relief from a sanctuary on the Janiculum Hill (Rome), showing a male figure bound by a serpent coiled seven times.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 760

Bronze head in Phrygian cap with seven rays.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 364 & 365

Fragmentary relief corner depicting Mithras as bull-slayer, preserving the bull’s hindquarters, scorpion, serpent and part of a torchbearer, with a partial inscription.

 
Monumentum

Altar from Mitreo di San Clemente

The altar of the Mithraeum of San Clemente bears the Tauroctony on the front, Cautes and Cautopates on the right and left sides and a serpent on the back.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 411

Triangular marble slab (H. 0.39 Br. 0.30 D. 0.03), found in the Forum of Nerva.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 411 & 412

Small triangular slab bearing a Latin inscription referring to Sol Invictus and to a sacred cave, probably dating to the 4th century AD.

 
Monumentum

Altar to Arimanius of the Esquilino

This altar mentioning the god Arimanius was found in 1655 at Porta San Giovanni, on the Esquilino.

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