The New Mithraeum Database

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 small white marble cippus bears an inscription of a certain Pater Antoninus to Cautes.

TNMM740 – CIMRM 270, 317

This elliptical terracotta fragment from Ostia depicts Mithras as a bullkiller.

TNMM737 – CIMRM 316

This marble tablet found at Portus Ostiae mentions a pater, a lion donor and a series of male names, probably from a Mithraic community.

TNMM648 – CIMRM 325

The floor of the central aisle of the Mithraeum of the Footprint in Ostia has a mosaic depicting a snake and a footprint.

TNMM94 – CIMRM 272

This plaque, now on display in the British Museum, may have come from the Aldobrandini Mithraeum in Ostia.

TNMM119 – CIMRM 234, 235

The sculptures of Cautes and Cautopates from the Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale may have been reused from an older mithraeum in Ostia.

TNMM143 – CIMRM 254, 255

Tracing the links between the cult of Mithras and the Proud Boys’ quest for identity, power, and belonging. How ancient rituals and brotherhood ideals resurface in radical modern movements.

This marble of Cautes was found together with his partner Cautopates in Ostia in 1939.

TNMM657 – CIMRM 296, 297

In the Mithraic bronze brooch found in Ostia, Cautes and Cautopates have been replaced by a nightingale and a cock.

TNMM369 – CIMRM 318

This study deals with hitherto unpublished evidence of private religious practice, found in the ruins of Ostia. The selected environment consists of domus, rented apartments, workshops, depots, shops, bars, markets, hotels, and also all mithraea and the c…

This inscription, found in the Mitreo della Planta Pedis, among some other monuments in Ostia, suggests a link between Mithras and Silvanus.

TNMM626 – CIMRM 276

Mithraism in Ostia. Mystery Religion and Christianity in the Ancient Port of Rome.

The inscription is carved into two pieces of marble cornice.

TNMM450 – CIMRM 228

This inscription found in the Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres mentions the Pater Marco Aemiliio Epaphrodito known from other monuments in Ostia.

TNMM487 – CIMRM 248, 249

Dedicated a floor mosaic to his god.

Guide to the archaeological site of Ostia Antica, published in the 1980s by the Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, with extensive information on the remains discovered to date. It includes details of the mithraea and other temples, squares and buil…

Marble torso found at Ostia in 1912 between the Decumanus and the Via dei Molini, dedicated to Mithras by a certain Atilius Glycol.

TNMM952 – CIMRM 319, 320

This white marble relief depicting a lion-headed figure from Ostia is now exposed at the Musei Vaticani.

TNMM440 – CIMRM 314, 315

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.

TNMM97 – CIMRM 250, 251