The New Mithraeum Database

A lost Mithraic relief formerly at the Villa Borghese in Rome, known only through a brief mention in early modern antiquarian literature and no longer traceable.

Marble base formerly in the Villa Negroni and then the Museo Borgia at Velletri, with bas-reliefs on three sides showing Sol in a quadriga, initiates in Oriental dress and other Mithraic scenes; the collection is now dispersed among museums in Naples and Rome…

Fragment of a red ware dish from Rome, now in the Akademisches Kunstmuseum at Bonn, with a representation of Mithras as a bull-killer sitting astride the bull with a flying cloak.

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.

Two white marble reliefs of Cautes and Cautopates in the usual Eastern attire with their torches broken off, found in the Palazzo Corsetti in Rome.

White marble statue of a cross-legged torchbearer in Eastern attire from Rome with a broken upraised torch and head and feet lost, probably the companion piece of No. 504, now in the Museo Nazionale delle Terme.

Two small fragments of a relief showing Mithras slaying the bull with the two torchbearers in a grotto, with traces of polychrome colouring, dated to the second half of the 2nd century A.D.

Fragment of a small white marble relief showing Cautes in tunica manicata and long cloak with an upraised flaming torch, from the Mithraeum at the Palazzo dei Musei, now at Via Portico d'Ottavia 29, Rome.

Marble relief with the dressed busts of Sol with five rays, a long-bearded man, and Luna with crescent, found in the camp of the equites singulares near the Scala Santa, now in the Museo Nazionale delle Terme.

Marble altar dedicated at the Vatican Phrygianum in Rome by the Mithraic pater Alfenius Ceionius Iulianus Kamenius in 374 CE.

This fragment of a double relief shows a tauroctony on one side and the sacred meal, including a serving Corax, on the other.

This marble relief bears an inscription by Marcus Modius Agatho, who dedicated several monuments to Mithras on the Caelian Hill in Rome.

This marble altar was found ’in the street called di Branco’, behind the palace of the Cardinal of Bologna, in Rome.

A study of Roman Mithraism that combines historical evidence with a symbol-centred interpretive approach, exploring Mithraic iconography, ritual experience, and the cult’s encounter with Christianity in the Late Empire.

Mithras being born from the rock (petrogenia), acquired in Rome and formerly kept in Berlin.

The Mithraeum under and behind S. Prisca on the Aventine is without doubt the most important sanctuary of the Persian god in Rome.

This inscription, which doesn’t mention Mithras, was found near the church of Santa Balbina on the Aventine in Rome.

Upper fragment of a marble relief depicting Cautes, discovered in the Forum of Caesar in Rome.

The Mithraeum of Santa Prisca houses remarkable frescoes showing the initiates in procession.