The New Mithraeum Database

The Mithraeum near Porta Romana was connected to a Sacello, but the door was blocked.

TNMM41

The name of the Mithraeum of the Seven Gates refers to the doors depicted in the mosaic that decorates the floor, symbolising the seven planets through which the souls of the initiates have to pass.

TNMM4 – CIMRM 287

Votive sculpture of Mithras sacrificing the bull from the Mithraeum of Tarquinia.

TNMM214

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

TNMM376

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

TNMM21 – CIMRM 653

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

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

TNMM370 – CIMRM 634

The votive fresco from the Mithraeum Barberini displays several scenes from Mithras's myth.

TNMM167 – CIMRM 390

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

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

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