The New Mithraeum Database

An earthen lamp bearing the name of C. Dessi along with two coins of Constantine and one of Gratianus, found in the Mithraeum at Spoleto in Umbria.

Marble altar in the Museo Capitolino, Rome, bearing a bust of Sol and a dedication by P. Aelius Amandus, a soldier of the equites singulares Augusti, in fulfilment of a vow on receiving his honourable discharge, dated to 158 A.D.

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.

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.

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.

Marble statue of the naked Mithras emerging from the rock, holding a dagger in his right hand and a torch in his left, visible to the knees, from the Mithraeum of S. Lorenzo in Damaso; the head is lost.

Marble statue of Cautopates in Eastern attire, cross-legged, leaning against a trunk and rocky stone with a cock beside his left foot, from the Mithraeum of S. Lorenzo in Damaso; the greater part of his arms and torch are lost.

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.

Fragment of a marble tabella with an inscription beginning "invicto", from the Mithraeum of S. Lorenzo in Damaso, Rome.

Fragment of a marble tabula ansata with a palm-branch in the ansa and a partially legible inscription mentioning Sol, from the Mithraeum of S. Lorenzo in Damaso, probably dated to 253 A.D.

Graffito on the left wall of the Palazzo Barberini Mithraeum consisting of the single name Macarius.

Base in the form of an altar with five small bacchic herms and eleven lamps, from the Mitreo Sabazeo at Ostia.

Lamp with six wicks, found near the altar before the cult-niche in the Mitreo delle Sette Porte at Ostia.

A small two-wick lamp and a larger twelve-wick lamp inscribed Serapiodori inny, from the Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale at Ostia.

Badly damaged limestone statuette of a standing figure in Eastern attire, head, arms and feet lost, from the Mithraeum near Memphis, Egypt.

Engraved inscription naming Maximus as magus, from column 1 of the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos, Syria.

Engraved Nâma inscription addressed to Antoninus, a pious syndexios, from the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos, Syria.

Painted inscription naming the patres and other initiates of the Mithraeum, above the podium in the south-west corner of the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos, Syria.

Graffito bearing the Mithraic salutation Nâma, engraved on column 1 of the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos, Syria.