The New Mithraeum Database

White marble statuette of a torchbearer from the Casino of the Villa Borghese, restored as a Paris, with head, right arm, calves, feet and the lower part of the cloak restored.

Miscellaneous small finds from the S. Prisca Mithraeum including a marble mortar, pieces of glass, plates, dishes and lamps dating from the first four centuries A.D.

Terracotta relief showing Victoria slaying a bull from the S. Prisca Mithraeum; a similar relief was found in 1953 and probably does not belong to the original Mithraic inventory.

Small marble slab from the Palazzo dei Musei Mithraeum bearing the inscription ALLIM, identified as a reference to Cacus.

Two fragments of greyish marble from the Palazzo dei Musei Mithraeum with a partially legible inscription referring to the pontifex maximus and tribunicia potestas for the twentieth time, attributed to Trajan or Hadrian.

Fragment of a marble slab from the Palazzo dei Musei Mithraeum preserving a partially legible dedication by L. Mo[...] Magnus, described as devotus.

Miscellaneous small finds from the Mithraeum at the Palazzo dei Musei, Rome, including animal bones, tusks of boars, marble pieces, bronze objects, glass fragments, and a tile with a Domitianic inscription.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Two marble fragments of the same stone, with worn lettering, set into the floor of the church above S. Clemente, bearing dedications to Sol Invictus Mithras and to Jupiter Dolichenus.

Marble statuette representing a bearded person as the Good Shepherd, found in the Dominicum Clementis opposite the Mithraeum of San Clemente; it definitively represents S. Peter, not a Mithraic father of the mysteries.

Brief inscription on a marble vase fragment dedicated to the Invincible Sun God, from Portus.

Lower part of a torchbearer statue, cross-legged in anaxyrides and short tunic, from one of the bases at the beginnings of the podia in the Mitreo delle Sette Porte at Ostia.

Marble lion's head fastened into a wall, its flat square back indicating it was set into masonry, 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.