The New Mithraeum Database

This scene from the frescoes of the Mitreo di Santa Maria Capua Vetere shows a kneeling, naked man surrounded by two other figures.

TNMM333 – CIMRM 191

This is the first of several fresco scenes depicting the initiation of a new member in a mithraic community, in Capua Vetere.

TNMM292 – CIMRM 187

The Mithraeum was found in one of the rooms of the Horrea built in the years 120 - 125 AD. The installation of the shrine may have taken place in the first half of the third century.

TNMM10 – CIMRM 300, 301

The Mithraeum of Lucretius Menander was installed in the early 3rd century in an alley to the east of a Hadrianic building named after the solar god temple.

TNMM6 – CIMRM 224

The brick altar of the Mithraeum Menander was covered with marble slabs bearing a crescent and an inscription.

TNMM534 – CIMRM 225

Dedicated the main altar found in the Mithraeum of Menender.

Pater of the Mithraeum of Ostia which bears his name.

The lion-headed god is standing on a globe encicled by two crossed bands on which five pearls.

TNMM322 – CIMRM 543

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.

TNMM533

The relief marble of Mithras sacrifying the bull, exposed on the Hermitage Museum comes from Rome.

TNMM308 – CIMRM 603, 604

Mithras rock-born from Villa Giustiniani was holding a bunch of grapes in its raised right hand instead of a torch, probably due to a restoration.

TNMM124 – CIMRM 590, 591

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.

TNMM531 – CIMRM 275

Praefectus vehiculorum, an official of the Roman courier service.

The Mitreo dei Castra Peregrinorum was discovered under the church of Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rome.

TNMM17

The Felicissimo Mithraeum has a floor mosaic depicting the seven mithraic grades.

TNMM166 – CIMRM 299

This monument was erected on the occasion of the elevation of a member to the Mithraic grade of Perses.

TNMM517 – CIMRM 402

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

TNMM515 – CIMRM 273

Priest. He devoted an inscription found on the main altar of the 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.

TNMM94 – CIMRM 272

Dedicated a relief of Mithras Tauroctonos in Macerata, Italy.