The New Mithraeum Database

The Mithraeum of Visentium, near Capodimonte in Viterbo, was carved grotto-style into a tuff cliff overlooking the waters of Lake Bolsena, just a few dozen metres away.

TNMM803

Visentium was the Latin name of one of the minor Etruscan cities.

The Mithraeum of Sutri was built inside a rocky hill that also hosted the Roman theatre of the city.

TNMM21 – CIMRM 653

The Mithraeum was inserted into the basement of the basilica-theater by the 3rd century.

TNMM75

The Mithraeum of Marino presents an unusually elongated structure with depictions from the Severian period.

TNMM22

The importance of the Mithraeum of Marino lies in its frescoes, the most significant of which is that of Mithras slaying the bull, surrounded by mythological scenes.

TNMM201

This remarkable Greek marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was discovered in 1705 and remained in private collections until it was bought by the Louvre.

TNMM793 – CIMRM 408, 409

The Mithraeum of Santa Maria Capua Vetere preserves frescoes depicting several scenes of the initiation rites.

TNMM23 – CIMRM 180

The Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres (Sette Sfere) is of great importance for the understanding of the cult, because of its black-and-white mosaics depicting the planets, the zodiac and related elements.

TNMM9 – CIMRM 239

The relief of Palazzo Colonna, Rome, depicts a lion-headed figure holding a burning torch in his outstretched hands.

TNMM317 – CIMRM 383

This is the first known inscription that includes Phanes alongside Mithras found in a Mithraic context.

TNMM792 – CIMRM 475

The Mithraeum of Santa Maria Capua Vetere includes a marble relief depicting a child Eros guiding Psyche through the dark.

TNMM174 – CIMRM 186

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull of Nersae includes several episodes from the exploits of the solar god.

TNMM420 – CIMRM 650, 651

This white marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was found on the Esquilino near the Church of Saint Lucy in Selci in Rome.

TNMM146 – CIMRM 368

Head in limestone (H. 0.235); found in the bed of the Millieri river in 1926.

TNMM886 – CIMRM 169

In this relief of Mithras as bull slayer, recorded in 1562 in the collection of A. Magarozzi, Cautes and Cautopates have been replaced by trees still bearing the torches.

TNMM125 – CIMRM 335

This altar to Mithras found in Aquilieia mentions several persons of a same community.

TNMM497 – CIMRM 741

The marble relief of Mithras killing the bull in Naples bears an inscription that calls the solar god omnipotentis.

TNMM464 – CIMRM 174, 175

The Mitreo della crypta neapolitana was used a des legends about its use, from a cult place devoted to Priapus to celebrate Aphrodite.

TNMM219

This cylindrical marble altar was dedicated by the same Pater Proficentius as the slab, both monuments found in the Mithraeum beneath the Basilica of San Lorenzo.

TNMM439 – CIMRM 422