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The New Mithraeum Database

Find news, articles, monuments, persons, books and videos related to the Cult of Mithras

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Altars of two Clarissimi in the Phrygianum of the Vatican

Both of them were discovered in 1609 in the foundations of the façade of the church of San Pietro, Rome.

 
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La grotta del Mitreo

The site was destroyed in the 5th century but some elements, including the benches, can still been seen.

 
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Major fresco of the Mitreo Barberini

The votive fresco from the Mithraeum Barberini displays several scenes from Mithras’s myth.

 
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Mitreo di Santa Prisca

The Mithraeum of Santa Prisca houses remarkable frescoes showing the initiates in procession.

 
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Tauroctony from Nesce

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull of Nersae includes several episodes from the exploits of the solar god.

 
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Intaglio with Mithras and Abraxas at the Walters Art Museum

This unusual piece depicts Mithras slaying the bull on one side and the Gnostic god Abraxas on the other.

 
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Inscription of Santi Marcellino e Pietro al Laterano

This inscription mentions a Pater for the first known time.

 
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CIMRM 563

Marble altar dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras, found in Rome (in aedibus Maffaeiorum), set up in 183 A.D. by M. Ulpius Maximus, praepositus tabellariorum, together with its ornaments and Mithraic insignia, in fulfilment of a vow.

 
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Aion gold figurine from Geneva

This small golden figurine seems to represent the Mithraic god Aion, as usual surrounded by a serpent.

 
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Mitreo presso Porta Romana

Excavated in 1919, the Mithraeum near the Roman Gate was installed in the 3rd century within a larger building complex.

 
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CIMRM 723

Fragment of a double-sided white marble Mithraic relief from San Zeno, found near the Castello di Tuenno, depicting elements of the tauroctony cycle and bearing a dedication to Deo Invicto Mithrae.

 
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CIMRM 694

Limestone low-relief depicting Cautopates standing cross-legged in eastern dress, accompanied by a bull, flowing water from an overturned jar and a crescent from Bolognia.

 
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CIMRM 407

Marble inscribed slab recording the dedication of a Mithraeum and an antrum to Mithras for the safety and victories of Septimius Severus and his family, found in Rome.

 
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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.

 
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Petrogeny from Florence

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

 
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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.

 
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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.

 
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Locri Epizephyrii

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

 
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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.

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