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  • Monumentum

    Tauroctonia del Cortile del Belvedere

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

    TNMM210 – CIMRM 546, 547

    Soli invicto deo / Atimetus Aug(ustorum) n(ostrorum) ser(vus) act(uarius) praediorum Romaniarorum.
  • Mithraeum

    Mitreo di San Clemente

    The Mithraeum under the Basilica of San Clemente made part of a notable Roman house.

    TNMM13 – CIMRM 338

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of the Loggia Scoperta

    Currently in the Musei Vaticani, this Tauroctony includes Mithras's birth restored as Venus anaduomene.

    TNMM209 – CIMRM 556, 625

    Val(erius) Marinus pater sign(um) ǀ Invicti Mitrhe ex voto po(suit).
  • Syndexios

    Valerius Marinus

    Valerius Marinus dedicated an image in Ocriculum.
  • Mithraeum

    Mitreo del Circo Massimo

    The Mithraeum of the Circus Maximus was discovered in 1931 during work carried out to create a storage area for the scenes and costumes of the Opera House within the Museums of Rome building.

    TNMM15 – CIMRM 434

  • Mithraeum

    Mitreo Barberini

    The Barberini Mithraeum was discovered in 1936 in the garden of the Palazzo Barberini, owned by Conte A. Savorgnan di Brazza.

    TNMM14 – CIMRM 389

  • Monumentum

    Coin of Valerian and Sol

    This coin was deposited in the upper level of the throne in the cult niche of the Mitreo della Planta Pedis.

    TNMM557 – CIMRM 277

  • Syndexios

    Valerian

    Roman emperor from 253 to 260, he was taken captive by Shapur I of Persia. He was thus the first emperor to be captured as a prisoner of war.
  • Monumentum

    Inscription of the Olympius for a Leo

    The inscription explains the transmission of the fourth Mithraic degree through the Paters of the Mitraeum of San Silvestro.

    TNMM448 – CIMRM 400

    Constantio VIllI et Iuliano II con[s(ulibus)] / Nonius Victor Olympius v(ir) c(larissimus) p(ater) p(atrum) / et Aur(elius) Victor Augentius v(ir) [c(larissimus)] pater / tradiderunt leontica IIII idu…
  • Syndexios

    Nero

    Fifth Roman emperor and last of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, reigning from 54 until his death in 68.
  • Mithraeum

    Mitreo della Piazza Dante

    The Mithraeum located in Piazza Dante in Rome was discovered in 1874 along with a series of monuments dedicated by a Pater named Primus.

    TNMM379 – CIMRM 349

  • Monumentum

    Cautopates in the Walters Art Museum

    This fragmentary relief shows Cautopates bordered by three of the six zodiacal signs with which He is associated: Capricorn, Sagittarius and Scorpio.

    TNMM545

  • Syndexios

    Marcus Aurelius Stertinius Carpus

    He was a plebeian citizen who dedicated a monument to the Unconquerable Sun, Mithras.
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony on display in Princeton

    This sculpture of Mithras killing the bull may come from Rome, probably found in 1919.

    TNMM282 – CIMRM 605

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony exhibited at the Cincinnati Art Museum

    In the tauroctonic relief on display at the Cincinnati Art Museum, Mithras slaughters the bull over a rocky background.

    TNMM336

  • Mithraeum

    Sabazeo

    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.

    TNMM10 – CIMRM 300, 301

    Fructus / suis in/pendis / consum/mavit
  • Mithraeum

    Mitreo di Lucrezio Menandro

    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.

    TNMM6 – CIMRM 224

    Deo Invicto Mithrae / Diocles ob honorem / C. Lucreti Menandri / Patris / D(ono) D(edit) D(edicavit).
  • Monumentum

    Altar of the Mitreo Menandro

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

    TNMM534 – CIMRM 225

    Deo Invicto Mithrae / Diocles ob honorem / C. Lucreti Menandri / Patris / D(ono) D(edit) D(edicavit).
  • Syndexios

    Diocles

    Dedicated the main altar found in the Mithraeum of Menender.
  • Syndexios

    Gaius Lucretius Menander

    Pater of the Mithraeum of Ostia which bears his name.
 
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