The New Mithraeum Database

Bust of a man in lorica and paludamentum from the Mithraeum at the Palazzo dei Musei, Rome; the head is lost.

Base of a Venus statuette preserving only the feet and a jug with a cloth on the right side, from the Mithraeum at the Palazzo dei Musei, Rome; a second broken base may also have belonged to a Venus statuette.

Lower part of a small statuette of Minerva in a long chiton, leaning on a shield with her left hand, from the Mithraeum at the Palazzo dei Musei, Rome.

Marble pilaster broken in two with ridges on all four sides and the head of Sol in a radiate crown at the top, from the Mithraeum at the Palazzo dei Musei, Rome.

Marble serpent's head with a small hole at the beginning of its neck, belonging to a Mithras bull-killing group or a rock-birth scene, from the Mithraeum at the Palazzo dei Musei, Rome.

Fragment of a small white marble relief showing Cautes in tunica manicata and long cloak with an upraised flaming torch, from the Mithraeum at the Palazzo dei Musei, now at Via Portico d'Ottavia 29, Rome.

Pair of white marble statues — Cautes with upraised torch and a cock, and Cautopates with a bird at his feet — found in 1886 on the north side of the Palatine between the hill and Via S. Teodoro, with traces of red painting on base and sides.

Graffito on the left wall of the Palazzo Barberini Mithraeum consisting of the single name Macarius.

Wall-painting on the last column but one of the Palazzo Barberini Mithraeum, showing a standing person in a short tunic with a wreath of ivy, carrying fruits in his left hand.

Wall-painting on the last column of the left bench in the Palazzo Barberini Mithraeum, showing a standing person pressing his left hand to his breast and extending his right hand towards a kneeling person whose head is covered with ivy.

Square marble slab walled in the right projecting elevation before the cult-niche of the Palazzo Barberini Mithraeum, with a dedication by Yperanthes (a Persian name) to the Invictus, inscribed in a red frame with traces of red and blue colour.

Black and white mosaic floor of the underground room used as a Mithraeum in the house of the Nummi Albani on the Quirinal; the mosaic ends about 1 metre from the side-walls, suggesting side-benches; Nummius Albinus was consul in 345 A.D.

Relief in plaster, fixed on the wall beside the Mithraic wall-painting (No. 386) in the house of the Nummi Albani on the Quirinal, with traces pointing to a representation of Mithras slaying the bull.

Possible Mithraeum discovered in 1869 near the previous sanctuary in Muti's gardens, described by Lanciani as a spelaeum cut in tufa with vestibule and cell with niches and altar, at the corner of the Via Nazionale and Via Venezia.

Mithraeum discovered towards the end of the 16th century in a vineyard of Horazio Muti opposite S. Vitale, between the Quirinal and Viminal hills, known from Vacca's report of a sealed room with many terracotta lamp-holders.

Marble altar found in the pontifical gardens on the Quirinal Hill, with a dedication to the Invictus N(abarze?) by Atticus pater, decorated with a urceus on the left and a patera on the right.

Marble altar found near S. Lorenzo in Piscibus in 1949, dedicated to the Great Mother, Attis, and the Invincible Mithras by Sextus Rusticus, vir clarissimus, pater patrum, proconsul of Africa between 371 and 373 A.D.

Fragment of a large marble tablet with large letters of poor 5th-century workmanship, found on the Monte Quirinale near the Via Nazionale, bearing poetic Mithraic references to the mystes of Ceres and the Invincible Mithras.

White marble slab showing Mithras as a bull-killer on a rocky base, found in 1928 by the Comtesse de Robillant in a cellar of the Palazzo del Grillo behind the Forum of Augustus; Mithras' head, both arms, and the bull's head and tail are lost.

Base in the form of an altar with five small bacchic herms and eleven lamps, from the Mitreo Sabazeo at Ostia.