The New Mithraeum Database

Lead.

TNMM109

Fresco showing a scene of initiation into the mysteries of Mithras in the Mithraeum of Santa Maria Capua Vetere.

TNMM234 – CIMRM 188

Procession of Leones carrying animals, bread, a krater, and other objects in preparation for a feast.

TNMM498 – CIMRM 481, 482

Fragment of a greyish marble relief depicting Mithras slaying the bull beneath a rocky grotto.

TNMM1112 – CIMRM 597

Roman stone low-relief depicting Mithras as a bull-slayer, with the upper part of his head missing.

TNMM1123 – CIMRM 615

Upper part of a goddess Fortuna of marble from Luna.

TNMM1048 – CIMRM 496

The vault of the Mithraeum in S. Capua Vetere is decorated with stars that have holes in their centers, which once held colorful glass decorations.

TNMM175

Mithras and other oriental gods were worshipped in the shrine of Zeus near the Villa of the Quintilians in Rome.

TNMM370 – CIMRM 634

Marble cippus with inscription.

TNMM1145 – CIMRM 639

Fragment of a marble relief (H. 0.27 Br. 0.38 D. 0.045).

TNMM1141 – CIMRM 635

This Mithraic temple, also known as the Mithraeum of the Olympii, dates to the 3rd century and was rediscovered in 15th-century Rome, but it has not been preserved.

TNMM446 – CIMRM 399

Fresco of Mithras found in an arched niche above the right bench of the Baths of Caracalla’s Mithraeum in Rome.

TNMM1023 – CIMRM 459

This marble relief depicting Mithras killing the bull, found at Porto d’Anzio in 1699 and now lost, is known from a engraving by del Torre.

TNMM908 – CIMRM 204

Antium was an ancient coastal town in Latium, south of Rome.

In this terracotta relief depicting Mithras as a bull killer found at Cales, now in Calvi Risorta, none of the usual accompanying animals is present.

TNMM904 – CIMRM 200

Second terracotta tablet found at Calvi depicting Mithras killing the bull, now at Berlin, Antiquarium.

TNMM905 – CIMRM 201

Cales was an ancient city of Campania, in today's comune of Calvi Risorta in southern Italy, belonging originally to the Aurunci/Ausoni, on the Via Latina.

Fresco depicting an initiation scene from the Mithraeum of Capua Vetere.

TNMM898 – CIMRM 194

Fragments of a marble relief of Sol, which probably served as a fenster.

TNMM1022 – CIMRM 458

Partial relief of a Giant with snake-feet found in the Mithraeum of Santa Prisca.

TNMM1043 – CIMRM 491