The New Mithraeum Database

The Tauroctony relief of Mithras killing the bull walled in the Cortile of the Belvedered, Vatican City, was found by Fagan near Ostia.

TNMM363 – CIMRM 321

A marble head at Florence, Uffizi (MMM I 182 n. 6; Amelung, Fuhrer Florenz, 95 No. 151) with sorrowful expression, is probably a head of Mithras tauroctone (Cumont in RA 1947, 8f with fig. 6; Becatti, Mitrei Ostia, PI. XXXIII, 2).

TNMM1160 – CIMRM 667

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

Porphyry states that the Mithraists “perfect their initiate by inducting him into a mystery of the descent of souls and their exit back out again, calling the place a ‘cave’.”

PhD Thesis by Vittoria Canciani, coordinated by A. Mastrocinque. Verona, 14th April 2022.

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

Proceedings of the International Seminar on the 'Religio-Historical Character of Roman Mithraism, with Particular Reference to Roman and Ostian Sources'. Rome and Ostia 28-31 March 1978

In The Cult of Mithras in Late Antiquity David Walsh explores how the cult of Mithras developed across the 3rd and 4th centuries A.D. and why by the early 5th century the cult had completely disappeared. Contrary to the traditional narrative that the cult…

l Mitraismo è, tra le religioni antiche di epoca romana, quella che più incuriosisce. Il motivo va ricercato nella grande quantità di nessi in comune con il Cristianesimo. Attraverso una attenta analisi, approfondita e assai mirata, Carlo Pavia è rius…

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

TNMM244

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

TNMM430 – CIMRM 2187

Syndexios in Ostia, his name Marsus suggests that he was a snake-charmer.

Pater and priest of the Fagan Mithtraeum with several monuments to his name.

The large number of monuments found at the Mithraeum of Sarmizegetusa and the sheer size of the temple are unusual.

TNMM57 – CIMRM 2027, 2033

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

The altar includes a slab with an inscription for the salvation of two emperors.

TNMM515 – CIMRM 273

Ara marmorea in aedibus Maffaeiorum.

TNMM1089 – CIMRM 563

Freedman, Pater, priest and antistes.

Pater at Caseggiato di Diana.

Antistes of several mithraea in Ostia.