The New Mithraeum Database

Marble altar from Rome with a dedication to Sol Invictus Mithras by Ralonius Diadumenus.

Marble tablet with a dedication by Brumasius to the holy table of Sol Mithras, set up in the presence of the pater with all the initiates.

Marble tablet with a dedication to Sol Invictus Mithras by Felix Messala together with the initiates Catellus and Dianus, decorated with a branch on each side.

Tiburtine stone altar from the gardens of the Perettiani family in Rome, with a dedication to Sol Invictus Mithras by Victor, farm bailiff of the Maeciani estates, through the priest M. Stlaccio Rufo, dated to 154 or 177 A.D.

Fragment of a marble aedicula with an inscription by a priest dedicating a shrine with columns to the Invictus numen of Mithras, from Rome.

Tauroctony relief in the Museo Torlonia, Rome, remarkable for having a large ant grasping the testicles in place of the scorpion, with the raven on Mithras' flying cloak, the dog and serpent near the wound, and the busts of Sol and Luna in the upper corners; no torchbearers represented…

Marble slab from the Palazzo dei Musei Mithraeum bearing a pierced star in the centre and a dedication to the Invictus by L. Reminius Fortunatus.

Marble statue of Cautopates in Eastern attire, cross-legged, leaning against a trunk and rocky stone with a cock beside his left foot, from the Mithraeum of S. Lorenzo in Damaso; the greater part of his arms and torch are lost.

Fragment of a marble tabella with an inscription beginning "invicto", from the Mithraeum of S. Lorenzo in Damaso, Rome.

Fragment of a marble tabula ansata with a palm-branch in the ansa and a partially legible inscription mentioning Sol, from the Mithraeum of S. Lorenzo in Damaso, probably dated to 253 A.D.

Marble tablet recording the dedication of a shrine to the Invictus God by L. Aurelius Severus, under the presidency of pater Domitius Marcellinus, dated to 181 A.D.

Two marble fragments of the same stone, with worn lettering, set into the floor of the church above S. Clemente, bearing dedications to Sol Invictus Mithras and to Jupiter Dolichenus.

Well with a drainage pipe and two oblong brick-built tombs in the room to the left of the entrance of the Mithraeum of San Clemente, one tomb filled with refuse and a large number of animal bones, particularly swine.

Marble statuette representing a bearded person as the Good Shepherd, found in the Dominicum Clementis opposite the Mithraeum of San Clemente; it definitively represents S. Peter, not a Mithraic father of the mysteries.

Sculptural fragments of two torchbearers from the Mithraeum of San Clemente, Rome.

Marble cippus of which only two sides are preserved, with a brief dedication to Cautes on the front face, from the Mithraeum of San Clemente, Rome.

Fragment of a marble vase found near Portus by Prince Torlonia, showing a bearded head in radiate crown (Sol) and Cautes with upraised torch, with a Mithras representation now lost, now itself lost.

A group of small finds from an Ostia Mithraeum, including three tuff altars, two trapezophores, a column fragment, lamps, vases, and a marble Silen.

Fragmentary marble tablet inscription mentioning Sol Invictus Mithras and a priest, from Tivoli (ancient Tibur), possibly of urban origin.

Fragment of a relief showing Mithras as bull-killer with unusual eagle-headed dagger handle and Sol in a quadriga, from Tivoli (ancient Tibur), known only through an inaccurate engraving by Barbault.