The New Mithraeum Database

Two yellow sandstone fragments from the Mithraeum at Dieburg, comprising a base with a foot and another piece with part of a garment and a club

Red sandstone base of a Mercury statue from the Mithraeum at Dieburg, preserving only the tortoise attribute at the god's feet

Red sandstone relief from the Mithraeum at Dieburg showing Mithras in Oriental dress carrying the bull on his shoulders

Red sandstone statue of Mithras naked being born from the rock, found in a pit near the entrance of the Mithraeum at Dieburg

Decorated ceramic vessel showing Mithras slaying the bull together with torchbearers, zodiacal motifs and figures of abundance.

Sculpted lion’s head from Vichy tentatively described as Mithraic in regional archaeological literature.

Sandstone altar combining imagery of Apollo, Mithras and the torchbearers Cautes and Cautopates near the Roman fort of Whitley Castle.

Bearded nude statue formerly claimed to be Mithraic but later rejected as a seventeenth-century sculpture unrelated to the cult.

A travertine altar bearing a brief dedication to Sol Invictus Mithras, found before the main niche in the Mithraeum discovered at Spoleto in 1878 near the Porta S. Gregorio.

Two Mithraic monuments received by the Museo Nazionale delle Terme in Rome in 1896, reportedly from Narni: a small head of Mithras tauroctone in Phrygian cap with traces of red and gilding, and a central relief fragment of Mithras slaying the bull.

A statue found along the Via Cassia about six kilometres from Rome, tentatively identified as an Aion entwined by a serpent but possibly representing Atargatis according to Vermaseren, now in the Museo Nazionale delle Terme.

A marble cippus from Rome bearing two inscriptions: the upper dedicated to Deus Sol Invictus Mithras and Cautopates, the lower by Flavius and companions.

A cippus found in a vineyard near the Via Salaria by the Coemeterium Priscillae outside Rome, inscribed by Q. Hostilius Euplastus, a leo of the Mithraic mysteries, dedicating a gift to the god.

A lost Mithraic relief acquired near Rome and formerly held by the Lyceum Hosianum of Braunsberg in East Prussia, known only through a 1910 communication to Cumont; possibly identical with the relief from Macerata.

A stone statue probably found in Rome, depicting a naked Mithras emerging from the rock with his index finger raised to his lips and his right arm broken off, described by Cumont as an unfinished work never completed.

Marble base formerly in the Villa Negroni and then the Museo Borgia at Velletri, with bas-reliefs on three sides showing Sol in a quadriga, initiates in Oriental dress and other Mithraic scenes; the collection is now dispersed among museums in Naples and Rome…

Tauroctony relief formerly in the house of the Alterii near S. Marco in Rome, now of unknown whereabouts, described by Gruterus as showing Mithras pressing both knees onto the bull and grasping its horns with the knife in the shoulder, with scorpion, serpent, raven, Sol and Luna…

Altar from an unknown location in Rome, with a dedication to Sol fulfilling a vow by P. Octavius Bassus, probably the same Bassus associated with the S. Prisca sanctuary.

Marble base in poor lettering found in the church of S. Maria de Cacabariis in Rome, recording the dedication by M. Aurelius Victor, vir clarissimus and prefect of the Feriae Latinae, to his patron Iovinus Callidianus, priest of Sol.

Marble base found in the church of S. Thomas on the Monte Caelio in Rome, with a brief dedication to Sol Invictus by L. Arrius Rufinus.