The New Mithraeum Database

Ara marmorea grandis in montium regione apud ecclesias S.

Parva ara marmorea in alveo Tiberis prope ripam dictam "muro nuovo" reperta.

The Museum of the Therms has also a marble statue of a cross-legged torch- bearer (H. 0.58) in Eastern attire, cross-legged (Inv. No. 283).

White marble statuette (H. 0.49).

Tabula lapidis Tiburtini reperta anno 1740 in vinea sub aede D.

In the lower strata of sand of the Mithraeum, two coins of Commodus and one of his wife, Crispina, two of Diocletianus and one of Galerius, one of Constans and two of Valens were found.

Inscription on a marble slab (H. 0.21 Br. 0.67 D. 0.02), walled in the ledge of bench p.

Inscription on a marble slab (H. 0.24 Br. 0.63 D. 0.02).

Strongly oxydised leaden plate (H. 0.55 Br. 0.43 D. 0.003), on which Sol is represented with seven rays round his curly head.

A marble mortar (H. 0.125) ; pieces of glass; a great number of plates and dishes; moreover lamps, dating from the first four centuries.

Base (H. 0.42 diam. 0.09), composed of two vases on top of , each other.

Fragment of a marble piece of rock (H. 0.07 Br. 0.06), probably remnant.

Part of a naked Venus (H. 0.095).

Marble triangle (L. 0.36 D. 0.135) with a semicircular opening in the middle.

Very small relief with the representation of Mithras, slaying the bull.

Two small fragments of a relief with the representation of Mithras tauroctone and the two torchbearers in a grotto.

During the excavations of the Dolichenum on the Aventine in 1935, two Mithraic monuments have been discovered and besides statues of Sol, Luna, Venus, Silvanus and Hercules.

Pieces of roughly worked stone may point at a representation of Mithras' rock- birth.

Marble relief of Mithras as a bull-killer.

Ghislanzoni, 324f and fig.