The New Mithraeum Database

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.

CIMRM 300, 301

Italy

This scene of the main fresco of the Mithraeum Barberini seems to depict part of the initiation into the Mithraic Mysteries.

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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.

CIMRM 224

Italy

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

CIMRM 225

Italy

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.

CIMRM 543

Italy

This Mithraic temple, aka Mithraeum of the Olympii, was discovered in the 15th century in Rome, although traces have been lost except for a few monuments with remarkable inscriptions.

CIMRM 399

Italy

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.

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This marble slab bears an inception be the Pater Proficentius to whom Mithras has suggested to build and devote a temple.

CIMRM 423

Italy

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

CIMRM 603, 604

Italy

White marble relief depicting Mithras slaying the bull, dedicated by Atimetus.

CIMRM 546, 547

Italy

This is the earliest known sculpture of a Roman Mithraic tauroctony.

CIMRM 593, 594

Italy

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.

CIMRM 590, 591

Italy

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.

CIMRM 275

Italy

The person who commanded the sculpture may have been M. Umbilius Criton, documented in the Mitreo della Planta Pedis.

CIMRM 230, 231

Italy

The relief of Mithras killing the bull of Stefano Rotodon preserves part of his polycromy and depicts two unusual figures: Hesperus and an owl.

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

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Second Mithraic monument dedicated by the Kastos family, found not far from the Arco di S. Lazzaro, in Rome.

CIMRM 473

Italy

The Mithraeum of Santa Prisca houses remarkable frescoes showing the initiates in procession.

CIMRM 476

Italy