The New Mithraeum Database

Marble relief from the Villa Wolkonsky showing Mithras slaying the bull, with the serpent creeping over the ground.

Fragment of a small white marble relief showing Mithras slaying the bull with the dog, serpent and scorpion, formerly walled in the inner court of the Palazzo Rondinini (now Palazzo Sanseverino), Corso No. 518.

Relief of bluish marble in the Casino of the Villa Doria Pamphili showing Mithras slaying the bull with the usual animals, cross-legged torchbearers, and Sol in a quadriga and Luna in a biga in the upper corners.

Marble relief formerly in the Palazzo Giustiniani showing Mithras slaying the bull while grasping one of its horns, with the dog, serpent, scorpion and torchbearers, and a krater before the feet of Cautes.

White marble relief from the Casino of the Villa Giustiniani showing Mithras slaying the bull, whose tail ends in ears, with the usual torchbearers, dog, serpent, scorpion and raven, and the busts of Sol and Luna in the upper corners.

Strongly oxidised leaden plate from the S. Prisca Mithraeum showing Sol with seven rays about his curly head, together with another head of Sol-Mithras in intarsio found in 1954.

Small marble relief from the Aventine showing a primitive representation of Mithras slaying the bull, without torchbearers or Sol and Luna, with a raven on the flying cloak, the dog and serpent near the wound, and a scorpion, now in the Museo Capitolino.

Pieces of roughly worked stone from the Caracalla Mithraeum which may represent Mithras' rock-birth.

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.

Fragments of a marble relief preserving only the lower part, with Mithras slaying the bull, dog and serpent licking blood, a large scorpion, and Cautopates behind the bull pointing his torch downwards, from the Mithraeum of S. Lorenzo in Damaso.

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.

Marble relief with the dressed busts of Sol with five rays, a long-bearded man, and Luna with crescent, found in the camp of the equites singulares near the Scala Santa, now in the Museo Nazionale delle Terme.

Marble head of Helios-Mithras with curly hair and seven holes for fastening rays, from the Mitreo degli Animali at Ostia, Lateran Museum.

Stone inscription dedicated to Sol Deus Augustus, found at Zraya (ancient Zarai).

Clay tablets recording a treaty between the Hittites and Mitanni invoking Mitra among the divine witnesses, excavated at Boğazkale (ancient Boghaz-Koï), 14th century B.C.

White painted clay vase from Mithraeum II at Stockstadt with seven holes in the border and a serpent creeping round one handle

The head of Mithras had seven holes made for fastening rays.

The person who commanded the sculpture may have been M. Umbilius Criton, documented in the Mitreo della Planta Pedis.

White marble tauroctony relief from the Mithraeum at Biljanovac, Moesia Superior, depicting the standard bull-slaying with torchbearers and Sol and Luna busts in the upper corners.

Inscription now preserved in the Palazzo Ducale of Urbino whose wording may point to the existence of a Mithraic community.