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The New Mithraeum Database in Italy

Find news, articles, monuments, persons, books and videos related to the Cult of Mithras found or located in Italy.

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    Pisignano

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    Monumentum

    Tauroctony on display in Boston

    This fragmentary relief depicts Mithras killing the bull in the usual manner, remarkably dressed in oriental attire.

    TNMM539 – CIMRM 607

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    Tauroctony in Copenhagen

    This statue of Mithras as a bullkiller was bought at Rome where it might be found.

    TNMM674 – CIMRM 596

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    Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Chrestos

    This relief of Mithras killing the bull, signed by a certain Χρῆστος, is on display in the Sala dei Animali of the Vatican Museum.

    TNMM673 – CIMRM 554, 555

    Χρῆστος πατὴρ καὶ Γαῦρος ἐποίησαν.
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    Monumentum

    Tauroctony relief of 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.

    TNMM672 – CIMRM 586

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    Tauroctony relief found between Porta Portese and St Pancrace

    Franz Cumont bought this relief of Mithras as a bullkiller from a dealer who claimed to have found it in a vineyard near the church of Saint Pancrace, in Rome.

    TNMM671 – CIMRM 585

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    Tauroctony of Villa Borghese

    This is one of the three reliefs of Mithras as a bullkiller from the Villa Borghese collection that belong to the Louvre museum, now in the Louvre Abu Dhabi.

    TNMM669 – CIMRM 588

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    Tauroctony of via di Borgo

    This relief of Mithras Tauroctonos from Rome bears the inscription of three brothers, two of them lions.

    TNMM649 – CIMRM 366, 367

    Deo sancto I(nvicto) M(ithrae) sacrathis (sic) d(onum) p(osuerunt) Placidus Marcellinus leo antis{ti}tes et Guntha leo.
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    Monumentum

    Inscription of Valentinus Secundionis

    This monument, now lost, was discovered in the 16th century, probably on the site of Sublavio statio.

    TNMM658 – CIMRM 730

    D(eo) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / et Soli soci/o sac(rum) Valen/tinus Se/cund[i]on[i]s / ob memor(iam) / patris sui / ex colleg(a) / v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito).
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    Locus

    Sublavio

    Waidbruck is a comune in South Tyrol in northern Italy, located about 20 kilometres northeast of Bolzano.
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    Monumentum

    Cautes and Cautopates of Ostia found in 1939

    This marble of Cautes was found together with his partner Cautopates in Ostia in 1939.

    TNMM657 – CIMRM 296, 297

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    Monumentum

    Cautes and Cautopates of Palermo

    These two mithraic sculptures of Cautes and Cautopates belong to the same collection of Astuto de Noto, made up of mostly Sicilian monuments.

    TNMM654 – CIMRM 165, 166

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    Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Palermo

    The assumed find-place of the Mithras Tauroctonus of Palermo is uncertain.

    TNMM150 – CIMRM 164

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    Locus

    Panormus

    Palermo is a city in southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan province.
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    Locus

    Cosa

    Cosa was an ancient Roman city near the present Ansedonia in southwestern Tuscany, Italy.
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    Monumentum

    Inscription by Claudius Thermodon of Bolsena

    The donor of this Mithraic inscription from Bolsena, a certain Tiberius Claudius Thermoron, is known from two other monuments.

    TNMM652 – CIMRM 660

    Soli invicto / Mitrhae(sic!) / Tiberius Claudi/us Tiberi filius / Thermodon / spelaeum cum / signis et ara / ceterisque / voti compos / dedit.
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    Locus

    Volsinii

    Volsinii or Vulsinii, is the name of two ancient cities of Etruria, one situated on the shore of Lacus Volsiniensis, and the other on the Via Clodia, between Clusium and Forum Cassii.
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    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.

    TNMM469 – CIMRM 339, 340

    Cn(aeus) Arrius Claudianus / pater posuit.
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    Monumentum

    Tauroctony/Repast of Castra Pretoria

    This fragment of a double relief shows a tauroctony on one side and the sacred meal, including a serving Corax, on the other.

    TNMM651 – CIMRM 397

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    Monumentum

    Stele of Acilius Pisonianus from Milan

    This high stele by a certain Acilius Pisonianus bears an inscription commemorating the restoration of a Mithraeum in Mediolanum, today's Milan.

    TNMM650 – CIMRM 706

    D(eo) S(oli) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / P(ublius) Acil(ius) Piso/nianus pater / patratus qui / hoc speleum / vi{i} ignis ab/sumtum com/parata area a re-/publ(ica) Mediol(anensi) / pecunia sua / restituit.
 
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