The New Mithraeum Database

Maarten Vermaseren acquired this rosso antico marble of Mithras slaying the bull in 1961.

TNMM376

The Mithraeum of Vulci is remarkable because of his high benches and the arches below them.

TNMM20

This relief was found under the Palazzo Montecitorio, in Rome, and bought by the Liebighaus at Frankfort.

TNMM256 – CIMRM 430

The discovery of the Mithraeum of Tarquinia is due to the Department for Protection of Cultural Heritage of the Carabinieri, who noticed some clandestine excavations near the Ara della Regina.

TNMM229

The sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull was transported from Rome to London by Charles Standish in 1815.

TNMM328 – CIMRM 592

In the Mithraeum of S. Capua Veteres, Cautes stands between two laurel trees.

TNMM254 – CIMRM 182

The marble shows Mithras slaying the bull, on one side, and Sol and Mithras feasting on a bull skin, on the other.

TNMM151 – CIMRM 641

The second statue of Mithras rock-birth was found in the Mitreo di Santo Stefano Rotondo shows a childish Mitras emerging from the rock.

TNMM364

This temple of Mithras on the north side of the Capitoline Hill in Rome no longer exists.

TNMM24 – CIMRM 414

The head was part of a stucco relief of the Tauroctony found under the church of Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rome

TNMM165

Relief of Heracles/Hercules capturing the Golden Hind of Artemis.

TNMM326

The sculpture of Aion from Florence, Italy, has the usual serpent, coiled six times on its body, whose head rests on that of the god of eternal time.

TNMM330 – CIMRM 665

A dinner scene with Sabina from the Catacombe dei Santi Marcellino e Pietro, near Rome, may have been commissioned by a follower of Mithras.

TNMM342

Luna riding a biga in the Mithraeum of Santa Capua Vetere.

TNMM193 – CIMRM 184

This small altar found in Rome depicts the god Sol with five rays around his head.

TNMM329 – CIMRM 432, 433

Tauroctony from a gemme, printed on Le gemme antiche figurate di Leonardo Agostini.

TNMM228

The intarsium of Sol found in the Mithraeum of Santa Prisca is composed of several varieties of marble.

TNMM385

The red ceramic vessel from Lanuvium shows Mithra carrying the bull, followed by the dog, and the Tauroctony on the opposite side.

TNMM368 – CIMRM 207

The relief of Sol was found during the construction of Piazza Dante in Rome in 1874.

TNMM384 – CIMRM 354, 355

This sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull was bequeathed to the Republic of Venice in 1793 by Ambassador Girolamo Zulian.

TNMM383 – CIMRM 584