The New Mithraeum Database

Altar depicting the god Mithras or Cautes on a bull.

TNMM155 – CIMRM 2186

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull found on the Esquiline Hill includes two additional scenes with Mithras and two other figures.

TNMM382 – CIMRM 350, 351

The Mitreo dei Marmi Colorati takes its name after the discovery of a black-and-white mosaic of Pan fighting with Eros.

TNMM233

The Tauroctony relief of Mithras killing the bull walled in the Cortile of the Belvedered, Vatican City, was found by Fagan near Ostia.

TNMM363 – CIMRM 321

The temple of Mithras of Carrawburgh, Brocolita, disclosed three main stages of development, the second exhibiting two reconstructions.

TNMM26 – CIMRM 844

This scene of the main fresco of the Mithraeum Barberini seems to depict part of the initiation into the Mithraic Mysteries.

TNMM283

The mosaic paved floor of the central aisle shows different figures: 1) On the threshold a large central arch formed by two pilasters; this main arch, from which hangs an oscillum is flanked by three minor arches on either side (seven spheres of the planets) (Becatti, PI. XIX).

TNMM937 – CIMRM 288

Marble base "von zwei Palmen ins Gevierte, wenig mehr als einen halben Palme dick".

TNMM1118 – CIMRM 609

Relief of peperino, fixed in a great height into a wall of the old farm "Le Capa- nacce", situated on the main road Le Capranicie-Vetralla, about 6 km from Vicus Matrini along the Via Cassia.

TNMM1154 – CIMRM 655

CIL VII 543; MMM II No.

TNMM1269 – CIMRM 843

ILN 1951,455; Richmond-Gillam, 30 and PI.

TNMM1270 – CIMRM 850

Altar (H. 0.56), found in the N.

TNMM1276 – CIMRM 858

"Au cours de sondages qu'il a opere au eimetiere sud-est, Vauthier a trouve l'extremite d'un flambeau tenu par une main, dans la pose exacte des dadophores, et une main tenant entre Ie pouce et l'index une petite offrande (fruit ?), qui evoque les mains trouvees dans Ie temple de Mithra.

TNMM1317 – CIMRM 933

In the back of the sanctuary, on the spot of the main relief, there lay on a fragment of this monument the skeleton of a man of about thirty or fourty years old.

TNMM1358 – CIMRM 983