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The New Mithraeum Database

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Mitreo Sacellum delle Tre Navate

The Mithraeum in the Chapel of the Three Naves was not linked to the cult of Mithras until recently because of a mosaic showing a pig, in the belief that it was an animal unfit for consumption in a temple of Eastern origin.

 
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Basin of Mitreo della Planta Pedis

This marble basin found in the Mithraeum of the Footprint bears an inscription of a certain Umbilius Criton, associated with a monumental tauroctonic sculpture also found in Ostia.

 
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Altar of the Mitreo della Planta Pedis

The altar includes a slab with an inscription for the salvation of two emperors.

 
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Mitreo della Planta Pedis

The floor of the central aisle of the Mithraeum of the Footprint in Ostia has a mosaic depicting a snake and a footprint.

 
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Head of Mithras from the Mitreo degli Animali

The head of Mithras had seven holes made for fastening rays.

 
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Inscription of Lucius Sempronius

Slab marble indicates that Lucius Sempronius has donated a throne to the Mitreo delle Pareti Dipinte.

 
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Inscriptions of Caseggiato di Diana

This marble slab found near the Casa de Diana in Ostia bears two inscription with several names of brothers of a same community

 
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Basin with inscription from Mitreo della Planta Pedis

The dedicator of this marble basin could be the same person who offered the sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull in the Mitreo delle Terme di Mitra.

 
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Fragment with inscription to Arimanius Casa di Diana

The image of the god Arimanius to which this monument refers has not yet been found.

 
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Cautes and Cautópates of Palazzo Imperiale

The sculptures of Cautes and Cautopates from the Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale may have been reused from an older mithraeum in Ostia.

 
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Mitreo Fagan

The Mitreo Fagan revealed remarkable sculptures of leon-headed figures now exposed at the Vatican Museum.

 
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Mitreo delle Sette Porte

The name of the Mithraeum of the Seven Gates refers to the doors depicted in the mosaic that decorates the floor, symbolising the seven planets through which the souls of the initiates have to pass.

 
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CIMRM 257 a|b

Head of Greek marble (H. 0.46).

 
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CIMRM 559

Marble head.

 
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CIMRM 322

Fragment of a marble vase, found near Portus by Prince Torlonia.

 
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CIMRM 308

Small cippus (H. 0.34 Br. 0.18 D. 0.16), found opposite the Theatre.

 
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CIMRM 307

Two fragments of a marble frieze (L. 0.52 and 0.78 H. 0.30), one found in 1890 in the outer porticus of the Theatre, and the other found in 1938 near the Mithraeum.

 
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CIMRM 292

Lower part of a statue (H. 0.37), which certainly stood on one of the bases at the beginnings of the podia.

 
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CIMRM 291

Fragments of a krater of a sort of green glazed maiolica with silver sheen.

 
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CIMRM 289

Marble altar found near the entrance (H. 0.295 Br. 0.22 D. 0.21).

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