The New Mithraeum Database in Italy

Representation of a person lying prostrate on the ground between two other walking figures on the Mitreo of Santa Capua Vetere.

TNMM736 – CIMRM 193

Minto has claimed that the time god Aion was painted on the corner of the north wall of the Mitreo de Santa Capua Vetere.

TNMM735 – CIMRM 185

This relief of Mithras as a bullkiller, probably found in Rome, has been part of the Palazzo Mattei collection since at least the end of the 18th century.

TNMM721 – CIMRM 534

This sculpture, probably of Cautopates, now in the Musei Vaticani, was transformed into Paris.

TNMM718 – CIMRM 507

This is one of the two torchbearers, probably Cautes, transformed into Paris, now in the British Museum.

TNMM132 – CIMRM 506

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.

TNMM717 – CIMRM 479

The fragmented tauroctony of the Mitreo di Santa Prisca rests on the naked figure of a bearded man, probably Ocean or Saturn.

TNMM716 – CIMRM 478

It is not certain that the marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was found on Capri, in the cave of Matromania, where a Mithraeum could have been established.

TNMM715 – CIMRM 172

Capri is an island located in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the Sorrento Peninsula, on the south side of the Gulf of Naples in the Campania region of Italy.

This inscription, found in the Mitreo della Planta Pedis, among some other monuments in Ostia, suggests a link between Mithras and Silvanus.

TNMM626 – CIMRM 276

This unusual mural depicting Mithras killing the bull was found near the Colosseum in 1668.

TNMM714 – CIMRM 337

This inscription was dedicated to God Cautes by a certain Flavius Antistianus, Pater Patrorum in Rome.

TNMM713 – CIMRM 336

The mosaic bears an inscription indicating the name of the owner.

TNMM490 – CIMRM 301

The Mithraeum of the House of Diana was installed in two Antonine halls, northeast corner of the House of Diana, in the late 2nd or early 3rd century.

TNMM5 – CIMRM 216

In the cult niche of the Mitreo del Caseggiato di Diana there is a list of words that could indicate names and measurements.

TNMM684 – CIMRM 218

A bearded Bacchus and another hermes as a woman, both crowned with vine tendrils, were walled into the base of a niche.

TNMM683 – CIMRM 217

This magnificent candelabrum was found in Rome in 1803, in the Syrian Temple of Janicule.

TNMM682 – CIMRM 508, 509

This altar to Deo Invicto was found during the excavation of the Monastero Delle Benedettine di Santa Grata in Bergamo, with a bronze calf’s head on top.

TNMM676 – CIMRM 710

Bergamo is a city in the alpine Lombardy region of northern Italy, approximately 40 km northeast of Milan, and about 30 km from Switzerland, the alpine lakes Como and Iseo and 70 km from Garda and Maggiore.

This low relief on an altar of Mithras killing the bull was found in a church in Pisignano, south of Ravenna.

TNMM675 – CIMRM 692