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Naples has been inhabited since the Neolithic Age. In the 2nd millennium BC, the Mycenaeans settled in the area. During the Roman period, Naples maintained its Greek language and customs, and greatly expanded.
The marble relief of Mithras killing the bull in Naples bears an inscription that calls the solar god omnipotentis.
This marble tauroctony relief, probably originating from Naples, depicts Mithras slaying the bull within a cave-like setting, accompanied by the usual animals and celestial busts.
Marble base formerly in the Villa Negroni and then the Museo Borgia at Velletri, with bas-reliefs on three sides showing Sol in a quadriga, initiates in Oriental dress and other Mithraic scenes; the collection is now dispersed among museums in Naples and Rome…
This lost Mithraic relief, formerly kept near the church of the Santissima Annunziata in Naples, was probably a large tauroctony associated with the area of Puteoli or Pausilypon.
The Mitreo della crypta neapolitana was used a des legends about its use, from a cult place devoted to Priapus to celebrate Aphrodite.
The Mithraeum of Carminiello ai Mannesi was installed in two rooms of a 1st century BC domus.
In this terracotta relief depicting Mithras as a bull killer found at Cales, now in Calvi Risorta, none of the usual accompanying animals is present.
Pausilypum, modern Posillipo, overlooked the Bay of Naples and became renowned for its elite villas and coastal setting.
It is not certain that the marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was found on Capri, in the cave of Matromania, where a Mithraeum could have been established.
One of Roman Italy’s most important Mithraic sanctuaries, the Mithraeum at S. Maria Capua Vetere preserves a remarkable painted cycle of initiation scenes, offering rare visual evidence for the ritual life of Roman Mithaism.
Posillipo is an affluent residential quarter of Naples, southern Italy, located along the northern coast of the Gulf of Naples.
Capri is an island located in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the Sorrento Peninsula, on the south side of the Gulf of Naples in the Campania region of Italy.
Capua is currently a city and comune in the province of Caserta, in the region of Campania, southern Italy, situated 25 km north of Naples, on the northeastern edge of the Campanian plain.
Campania preserved a vibrant urban and maritime environment closely connected to the commercial life of Roman Italy.
This inscription on white marble by Lucius Gavidius uses the term ther cultores to refer to his Mithraic community in Stabiae, Italy.
The epigrahy includes a mention of Marcus Aurelius, a priest of the god Sol Mithras, who bestowed joy and pleasure on his students.
He dedicated to the Emperor, for the worshipers of the god Mithras a sculpture in Stabiae.
