The New Mithraeum Database

Three European museums celebrate Mithras with a continental exhibition featuring more than 200 works of art from Roman times to the present day.

Peter Mark Adams: ‘The initiation was a frightening experience that caused some people to panic as a flood of otherworldly entities swept through the ritual space.’

Between the 1st and 4th centuries, Mithraism developed throughout the Roman world. Much material exists, but textual evidence is scarce. The only ancient work that fills this gap is Porphyry’s intense and complex essay.

Twelve centuries separate the decline of Roman Mithraism from the dawn of Freemasonry. Twelve centuries during which the mysteries of Mithras have remained more secret than ever.

The Mithraeum of the Animals was decorated with a mosaic depicting a naked man, a cock, a raven, an scorpion, a snake and the head of the bull.

1) Right upper comer of a stone relief (H. 0.27 Br. 0.22 D. 0.14).

Head in fine grained marble (H. 0.18).

Terracotta relief with the representation of Victoria, slaying a bull.

On the under layer remnants of other painted persons are visible.

Inscription carved on the pairs of columns on the backs of the five thrones, which stand on the west and east part of the terrace.

Marble relief (H. 1.23 Br. 0.74), found at S.

Rehm in Hermes, 1914,313; Ann.

Square base, found together with the preceding No.

CIL V 5019; MMM II No.

Square base, found in 1868 "sotto la cascata di Sardagna a S.

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

The remnants of a wall, which were found here deep under the ground, may point to the existence of a Mithraeum.

CIL V 8892; MMM II No.

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

Fragment of coarse-grained yellowish-white marble (H. 0.23 Br. 0.25-0.135 D. 0.05-0.06), found in 1911 at operations of the restaurant of Leopold Inama's at S.