The New Mithraeum Database

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.

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.

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.

Small undecorated altar of travertine without inscription, from the Mitreo dei Serpenti at Ostia.

Marble altar bearing a bust of Sol in radiate crown with Cautopates on the right and Cautes on the left, both cross-legged, from the Mitreo delle Pareti Dipinte at Ostia.

A small two-wick lamp and a larger twelve-wick lamp inscribed Serapiodori inny, from the Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale at Ostia.

A few pieces of tuff worked as rocks, forming a cone representing the remnants of the rock-birth of Mithras, found around the altar in the Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale at Ostia.

Two marble fragments of a statue of Mithras as bull-killer, preserving the head in Phrygian cap and right hand with dagger, with traces of red paint, from the Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale at Ostia.

A small hollow edicola of simple square structure near altar K, with an opening for lamp offerings, from the Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale at Ostia.

A group of small finds from an Ostia Mithraeum, including three tuff altars, two trapezophores, a column fragment, lamps, vases, and a marble Silen.

Two small altars dedicated to Sol and Luna by the consul Q. Aradius Rufinus, found at Sidi Adi bel-Kassem near Thuburnica, probably dated 304-321 A.D.

Graffito bearing the Mithraic salutation Nâma, engraved on column 1 of the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos, Syria.

Fragments of large-scale painted heads belonging to paintings of considerable size, from the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos, Syria, 3rd century A.D.

Stone lamp installation, vessels and bronze chain links associated with ritual activity inside the Mithraeum of Vindobala.

Group of five uninscribed ritual altars discovered at different points inside the Mithraeum of Vindobala.

Monumental inscription honouring the senator and Mithraic pater Kamenius together with his numerous priestly offices and initiatory roles.