The New Mithraeum Database

Relief in limestone, the greater fragment (H. about 2.00) was found before the altars Nos 863-4; the four smaller fragments in the centre of the cult-room (1822).

We still have to mention a naked foot beside the remnants of a tree-trunk (Inv. No. 576) and remnants of a marble seat or table, on which an acanthus-leaf, with the head and neck of a lion emerging out of it (Melida, Cat. Badajoz, Nos. 1086 and 1095).

Small votive altar in limestone (H. 0.61 Br. 0.30 D. 0.31).

Fragment of a limestone relief (H. 0.50 Br. 0.89 D. 0.23-0.42), found at Pola "am Siidabhang des Castellhiigels bei Demolisierung einer Mauer".

A limestone relief (H. 0.37 Br. 0.20), worked on either side.

Fragment of a limestone low-relief (H. 0.33 Br. 0.19), found at S.

White marble relief (H. 0.39 Br. 0.51 D. 0.10), found at Piedimonti near Terni in 1880.

Besides these inscriptions Martelli (Antichita dei Sicoli II 1835, 162 No. 11) mentions an "Altra iscrizione scheggiata esiste in nostra casa insieme colla statua bipedale del Sole mancante di testa, braccia e piedi, rna di rara scultura anti- chissima"…

White marble statue (H. 0.43 Br. 0.29), found in 1925 "sulla via Aurelia intorno al milliare undecimo nella tenuta denominata il Bottacio" (Lorium).

In plintho marmoreo olim in vinea Guidii, qui unde acceperit non constat.

Basis marmorea pessimis litteris.

Fragment of grey marble (L. about 0.70), "olim in cavaedio palatii Caponii".

White marble relief (H. 0.50 Br. about 0.60), walled in the back-wall of the Casino of the Villa Giustiniani (nowadays Massimi-P. Lancelotti).

Further other small finds were made such as bones of animals, tusks of boars, pieces of marble, among which one with the outlines of a fish, bronze objects such as e.

Towards the end of the 16th century a Mithraeum was discovered between the Quirinalis and the Viminalis.

"Parte inferiore di un fusto di candelabro a guisa di tronco di palma uscente da un nascimento di foglie d'acanto; nel plinto in tre lati la inscrizione" (Lan- ciani in BAM 1875,248).

Duo fragmenta marmorea facile eiusdem lapidis litteris detritis in ecclesiae pavimento inserta.

Graffito, inscribed by the possessor of a simple dark room, on a wall of the Caseggiato del Sole (Reg. V, Is. VI, I); this house is situated annex to the Mitreo dei Serpenti (Becatti, MitreiOstia, 125ff,fig.24andpl. XXXVIII,4) (L.H.0.02-0.04).

The marble cap, mentioned by Visconti (p. 171), certainly belongs to the finds of Mitreo degli Animali (see No. 280).

Limestone, found on the island of Ischia.