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Ostia may have been Rome's first colony. According to legend, Ancus Marcius, the fourth king of Rome, destroyed the area and founded the colony. An inscription seems to confirm the foundation of the ancient castrum of Ostia in the 7th century BC.
This elliptical terracotta fragment from Ostia depicts Mithras as a bullkiller.
Small marble base with a dedication by T. Annius Lucullus, sevir and quinquennalis, to Martis Dendrophoris Ostiensium, from the Mitreo degli Animali at Ostia, dated to 143 A.D.
Small marble base dedicated by C. Atilius Bassus, freedman and apparator of a priest of the Great Mother, to Silvanus dendrophoris, from the Mitreo degli Animali at Ostia.
Small marble base dedicated by Sex. Annius Merops, honoured Dendrophoros, to the image of Terrae Matris, from the Mitreo degli Animali at Ostia, dated to 142 A.D.
Series of small bronze plaques depicting zodiac signs and planetary figures discovered in Ostia and possibly connected with the decoration of a Mithraic sanctuary.
Two marble heads from Ostia, including a youthful figure wearing a Phrygian cap and another identified as Mithras-Helios.
This unusual mosaic representation of the god Silvanus was found in the Mithreaum of the so-called Imperial Palace in Ostia.
This marble statuette from Ostia depicts Cautopates lowering his torch beside a tapering rock associated with Mithras’ birth from stone.
This marble of Cautes was found together with his partner Cautopates in Ostia in 1939.
In the Mithraic bronze brooch found in Ostia, Cautes and Cautopates have been replaced by a nightingale and a cock.
Small marble base recording a donation to M. Cerellio Hieronymo, pater and sacerdos, on behalf of an antistes who dedicated objects to the god, from the Mitreo degli Animali at Ostia.
Marble slab with a fragmentary Latin inscription, walled into the right-hand side of the cult-niche in the Mitreo delle Pareti Dipinte at Ostia.
Archaeologists discovered the 20th temple dedicated to Mithras in Ostia during the restoration of the domus del capitello di stucco in 2022.
This inscription, found in the Mitreo della Planta Pedis, among some other monuments in Ostia, suggests a link between Mithras and Silvanus.
Small marble column dedicated by Iunia Zosime, mater, to Virtus Dendrophori from silver weighing two pounds, from the Mitreo degli Animali at Ostia.
Marble altar found near the entrance of the Mitreo delle Sette Porte at Ostia, dedicated by Sextus Fusinius Felix.
Marble statue of Cautes, found at Ostia. The head, one arm and the legs are missing. The figure wears a short tunic and raises the torch in the canonical upward gesture.
A mosaic of Silvanus, dated to the time of Commodus, was found in a niche in a nearby room of the Mithraeum in the Imperial Palace at Ostia.
The floor of the central aisle of the Mithraeum of the Footprint in Ostia has a mosaic depicting a snake and a footprint.
