The New Mithraeum Database

Small marble altar from the house of the guardian of the Cancelleria in Rome, with a dedication of an altar to Sol by L. Spedius Quadratus.

Altar from an unknown location in Rome, with a dedication to Sol fulfilling a vow by P. Octavius Bassus, probably the same Bassus associated with the S. Prisca sanctuary.

Small marble altar from the house of the guardian of the Cancelleria in Rome, dedicated to Sol Sacrum in fulfilment of a vow by C. Iulius Helius, a blacksmith, decorated with a urceus on the left and a patera on the right.

Marble base in poor lettering found in the church of S. Maria de Cacabariis in Rome, recording the dedication by M. Aurelius Victor, vir clarissimus and prefect of the Feriae Latinae, to his patron Iovinus Callidianus, priest of Sol.

Partially legible altar from a cardinal's vineyard in Rome, bearing a fragmentary dedication to the Invictus God Mithras Sol.

Altar from the Prati di Castello area of Rome, with a dedication to Sol Invictus Mithras by L. Domitius Frontinus.

Altar found in the church of S. Giovanni de Mercato in Rome, with a dedication to the holy Invictus Mithras by C. Tullius Trophimianus.

Marble altar from Rome with a dedication to Sol Invictus Mithras by Ralonius Diadumenus.

Marble altar lacking its tympanum, found in the house of Franciscus Novellus near S. Marco in Rome, dedicated to Sol Invictus by T. Pomponius Repentinus, a nomenclator and keeper of public records, with two denarii distributed at the dedication; dated to 184 A.D…

Marble base found in the church of S. Thomas on the Monte Caelio in Rome, with a brief dedication to Sol Invictus by L. Arrius Rufinus.

Small marble base with a votive dedication to Sol Invictus by P. Pomponius Clitus, from Rome.

Small square marble altar found in the house of Volterra on the Monte Pincio in Rome, with a dedication to Sol Invictus in fulfilment of a vow by Q. Codius Philo.

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.

Altar formerly in the house of the de Vellis family near the Carmelites in Rome and now in the Museo delle Terme, with a dedication to Silvanus on one side and on the reverse a record by M. Aurelius Bassus, priest of Sol, of having made a fountain flow.

Tiburtine stone altar from the gardens of the Perettiani family in Rome, with a dedication to Sol Invictus Mithras by Victor, farm bailiff of the Maeciani estates, through the priest M. Stlaccio Rufo, dated to 154 or 177 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.

Fragment of a marble aedicula with an inscription by a priest dedicating a shrine with columns to the Invictus numen of Mithras, from Rome.

Fragment of a small tauroctony relief in the Museo Lateranense, Rome, preserving the bull's head and the upper part of Cautopates pointing his torch downwards with both hands, and the bust of Luna with crescent in the upper corner.

White marble statue of the lion-headed Aion standing on a cone decorated with a crescent, entwined in seven coils of a serpent and pressing claw-like hands against his body, each grasping a key; formerly in the Museo Torlonia, Rome.

Tauroctony relief in the Museo Torlonia, Rome, remarkable for having a large ant grasping the testicles in place of the scorpion, with the raven on Mithras' flying cloak, the dog and serpent near the wound, and the busts of Sol and Luna in the upper corners; no torchbearers represented…