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This study deals with hitherto unpublished evidence of private religious practice, found in the ruins of Ostia.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…

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

Dedicated a floor mosaic to his god.

In the cult niche of the Mitreo del Caseggiato di Diana there is a list of words that could indicate names and measurements.

TNMM684 – CIMRM 218

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 relief of Mithras killing the bull of Stefano Rotodon preserves part of his polycromy and depicts two unusual figures: Hesperus and an owl.

TNMM365

The mosaic bears an inscription indicating the name of the owner.

TNMM490 – CIMRM 301

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…

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

TNMM740 – CIMRM 270, 317

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

Pater Patrum of Ostia, he officiated at the Mitreo Aldobrandini where he is mentioned in a couple of inscriptions.

This medallion belongs to a specific category of rounded pieces found in other provinces of the Roman world.

TNMM430 – CIMRM 2187

This graffito seems to be an account of offerings made by Mithras worshippers in the Cassegiato di Diana

TNMM612 – CIMRM 112

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

TNMM119 – CIMRM 234, 235

The Mithraeum at Espronceda Street, in Merida, was discovered in 2000. It is a semi-subterranean temple.

TNMM244

In a house from the time of Constantine, a Lararium was found with a statue of Isis-Fortuna. The Mithraeum was a door next to it, on a lower room.

TNMM83 – CIMRM 356

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

TNMM737 – CIMRM 316

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