The New Mithraeum Database

The Fagan Mithraeum, also known as the Mithraeum of Tor Boacciana, yielded remarkable sculptures of lion-headed deities, several of which are now preserved in the Vatican Museums.

Marble torso found at Ostia in 1912 between the Decumanus and the Via dei Molini, dedicated to Mithras by a certain Atilius Glyco.

Altar with Cautes and Cautopates dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras as protector of the Tetrarchy in 3rd-century Carnuntum.

Governor of Numidia and prolific dedicator of monuments to Sol Mithras, Sol Invictus and other deities in late Roman North Africa.

This relief of Mithras killing the bull, signed by a certain Χρῆστος, is on display in the Sala dei Animali of the Vatican Museum.

Gem formerly published as Mithraic by Cumont but subsequently identified as depicting the Egyptian deity Besa.

A marble statuette found at Augusta Emerita (modern Mérida) in 1902, representing a seated deity whose head, arms and feet are lost, tentatively identified as Jupiter-Serapis.

A fine white marble bust of Venus, a head of a helmeted deity possibly Minerva, small female heads, and bronze eye-plaques analogous to those from the temples of Sequana and Apollo Vindonnus, found at the building south-west of the Mithraeum at Les…

Graffito on a wall of the Caseggiato del Sole adjacent to the Mitreo dei Serpenti at Ostia, reading "Dominus Sol hic avitat" (Lord Sun dwells here).

Statuettes of eastern deities including Mithras, found in a walled compartment near a Punic cemetery at Duimes, Carthage.

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

Partially legible graffito scratched on the back wall of room M in the Palazzo dei Musei Mithraeum, Rome.

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.

Small lamp from the Palazzo dei Musei Mithraeum, Rome, bearing a representation of a ram.

Fragments of a small lamp from the Palazzo dei Musei Mithraeum, preserving the lower part of the bust of Luna set within a crescent.

Fragment of a large dolium from the Palazzo dei Musei Mithraeum, decorated with two small columns supporting a facade and a youth standing between them playing the flute and holding a stick in his left hand.

Small lamp decorated with a flying Victoria holding a crown in her right hand and a palm-branch in her left, from the Mithraeum at the Palazzo dei Musei, Rome.

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.

Bust of a man in lorica and paludamentum from the Mithraeum at the Palazzo dei Musei, Rome; the head is lost.