The New Mithraeum Database

Ancient marble fragments walled into the staircase of the house at Via Boncompagni 101 (Boarding-house Cosmopolita), including a lower part of a Mithras bull-killing group and a fragment of a low-relief with the bullkilling; not traced by Vermaseren.

Graffito on the left wall of the Palazzo Barberini Mithraeum consisting of the single name Macarius.

Wall-painting on the last column but one of the Palazzo Barberini Mithraeum, showing a standing person in a short tunic with a wreath of ivy, carrying fruits in his left hand.

Wall-painting on the last column of the left bench in the Palazzo Barberini Mithraeum, showing a standing person pressing his left hand to his breast and extending his right hand towards a kneeling person whose head is covered with ivy.

Square marble slab walled in the right projecting elevation before the cult-niche of the Palazzo Barberini Mithraeum, with a dedication by Yperanthes (a Persian name) to the Invictus, inscribed in a red frame with traces of red and blue colour.

Black and white mosaic floor of the underground room used as a Mithraeum in the house of the Nummi Albani on the Quirinal; the mosaic ends about 1 metre from the side-walls, suggesting side-benches; Nummius Albinus was consul in 345 A.D.

Relief in plaster, fixed on the wall beside the Mithraic wall-painting (No. 386) in the house of the Nummi Albani on the Quirinal, with traces pointing to a representation of Mithras slaying the bull.

Possible Mithraeum discovered in 1869 near the previous sanctuary in Muti's gardens, described by Lanciani as a spelaeum cut in tufa with vestibule and cell with niches and altar, at the corner of the Via Nazionale and Via Venezia.

Mithraeum discovered towards the end of the 16th century in a vineyard of Horazio Muti opposite S. Vitale, between the Quirinal and Viminal hills, known from Vacca's report of a sealed room with many terracotta lamp-holders.

Marble altar found near S. Lorenzo in Piscibus in 1949, dedicated to the Great Mother, Attis, and the Invincible Mithras by Sextus Rusticus, vir clarissimus, pater patrum, proconsul of Africa between 371 and 373 A.D.

Fragment of a large marble tablet with large letters of poor 5th-century workmanship, found on the Monte Quirinale near the Via Nazionale, bearing poetic Mithraic references to the mystes of Ceres and the Invincible Mithras.

White marble slab showing Mithras as a bull-killer on a rocky base, found in 1928 by the Comtesse de Robillant in a cellar of the Palazzo del Grillo behind the Forum of Augustus; Mithras' head, both arms, and the bull's head and tail are lost.

Two marble frieze fragments with incised busts of Sol, Luna, Mars, Jupiter, and Venus, one found in 1890 in the outer porticus of the Theatre and one found in 1938 near the Mithraeum at Ostia.

Base in the form of an altar with five small bacchic herms and eleven lamps, from the Mitreo Sabazeo at Ostia.

Inscription dedicated to Sol Invictus, Omnipotent and Holy Caelestis, with Fortuna Lares and Tutelae, found near the Mitreo Sabazeo at Ostia, dedicated by Venerandus.

Inscription dedicated to the Numen Caelesti by P. Clodius Flavius Venerandus, sevir augustalis, who acted in response to a dream, from the Mitreo Sabazeo at Ostia.

Marble slab with a vow to Iuppiter Sabazius made by imperial command, dedicated by L. Aemilius, from the Mitreo Sabazeo at Ostia.

Marble slab recording the exedra of Arpocrates, reused in the pavement of the floor of the Mitreo Sabazeo at Ostia.

Small undecorated altar of travertine without inscription, from the Mitreo dei Serpenti at Ostia.

Lower part of a torchbearer statue, cross-legged in anaxyrides and short tunic, from one of the bases at the beginnings of the podia in the Mitreo delle Sette Porte at Ostia.