The New Mithraeum Database

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The Mitreo delle terme di Caracalla is one of the largest temples dedicated to Mithras ever found in Rome.

TNMM16 – CIMRM 457

This inscription mentions a Pater for the first known time.

TNMM511 – CIMRM 362

The pater Aulus Aemilianus Antoninus dedicated an altar to Cautes in the Mitreo delle Pareti Dipinte.

This altar was originally consecrated to Hercules and was rededicated to Mithras by Callinicus in the Mithraeum of the House of Diana.

TNMM582 – CIMRM 219, 220

The Mithraeum of the Snakes preserves paintings of serpents, representing Genius Loci, part of an older private sanctuary, which were respected in the temple of Mithras.

TNMM8 – CIMRM 294

Pythagorean and mage.

Some authors have speculated that the flying figure dressed in oriental style and holding a globe could be Mithras.

TNMM577

This small golden figurine seems to represent the Mithraic god Aion, as usual surrounded by a serpent.

TNMM133

This altar found in Sentinum bears an inscription from two brothers.

TNMM572 – CIMRM 689

This inscription reveals the names of 36 cultori of Sentinum, one of whom bears the title of pater leonum.

TNMM570 – CIMRM 688

Pater leonum and public freedman of Sentinum.

Gessius Castus and Gessius Severus have placed a decorated stutue and left testimony on this inscription below.

TNMM571 – CIMRM 687

The Mithraeum of Spoleto was found in 1878 by the professor Fabio Gori on behalf of Marquis Filippo Marignoli, owner of the land.

TNMM19 – CIMRM 673

The Mithraeum of Frutosus was in a temple assigned to the guild of the stuppatores.

TNMM40 – CIMRM 226

This tabula marmorea was consecrated by a certain slave Vitorinus in Tibur, nowadays Tivoli, near Rome.

TNMM569 – CIMRM 214

Slave of the imperial family and dispensator who repaired an image of Mithras in Tibur, near Rome.