The New Mithraeum Database

Monumentum

Album of Sentinum

This inscription reveals the names of 36 cultori of Sentinum, one of whom bears the title of pater leonum.

TNMM570 – CIMRM 688

Cultores D(ei) S(olis) I(nvicti) Mithrae / patroni, prosedente C. Propertio Profuturo. Coiedius Proculus / Ligurius Theodotus / Mussius Vindex / Coiedius Hilarianus / Sentin(as) pater leonum Ianuar…

Mithraeum

Mitreo Aldobrandini

The Mithraeum of Aldobrandini was excavated in 1924 by G. Calza on the premises belonging to the Aldobrandini family.

TNMM42 – CIMRM 232

Monumentum

Tauroctony of the Mitreo delle terme di Mitra

The person who commanded the sculpture may have been M. Umbilius Criton, documented in the Mitreo della Planta Pedis.

TNMM108 – CIMRM 230, 231

Κρίτων / Ἀθηναιος / έποίει.

Mithraeum

Sabazeo

The Mithraeum was found in one of the rooms of the Horrea built in the years 120 - 125 AD. The installation of the shrine may have taken place in the first half of the third century.

TNMM10 – CIMRM 300, 301

Fructus / suis in/pendis / consum/mavit

Monumentum

Mithras-Sol Altar from the Carrawburgh

One of the altars from the Carrawburgh Mithraeum depicts the bust of Mithras or Sol.

TNMM180 – CIMRM 847, 848

Deo ♣ invicto ♠ / Mithrae M(arcus) Sim/plicius Simplex pr(a)ef(ectus) v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito).

Monumentum

Floor mosaic of Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale

It bears an inscription repeated on each side of the podia.

TNMM492 – CIMRM 251

Soli invict(o) Mit(hrae) d(onum) d(edit) L. Agrius Calendio.

Monumentum

Inscription found in the Mitreo delle Sette Sfere

As this short inscription indicates, Aemilio Epaphorodito was both Pater and priest of the Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres.

TNMM462 – CIMRM 249

M. Aemilio / Epaphrodito / patre et sacerdote.

Mithraeum

Mitreo di Felicissimo

The Mithraeum Felicissimus has a floor mosaic depicting the seven mithraic grades.

TNMM7 – CIMRM 299

Felicissimvs / ex voto f[ecit]

Monumentum

Venus of Mérida small sculpture

The lack of attributes and its decontextualisation prevent us from attributing a specific Mithraic attribution to this small Venus pudica from Mérida.

TNMM429 – CIMRM 785

Mithraeum

Mitreo delle Sette Porte

The name of the Mithraeum of the Seven Gates refers to the doors depicted in the mosaic that decorates the floor, symbolising the seven planets through which the souls of the initiates have to pass.

TNMM4 – CIMRM 287

Mithraeum

Mitreo di Vulci

The Mithraeum of Vulci is remarkable because of his high benches and the arches below them.

TNMM20

Mithraeum

Mithraeum of the Coloured Marble

The Mitreo dei Marmi Colorati takes its name after the discovery of a black-and-white mosaic of Pan fighting with Eros.

TNMM233

Monumentum

Tauroctony of the Cortile del Belvedere

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

Mithraeum

Mitreo degli Animali

The Mithraeum of the Animals was decorated with a mosaic depicting a naked man, a cock, a raven, an scorpion, a snake and the head of the bull.

TNMM3 – CIMRM 278

Monumentum

Detalle en el suelo del mitreo: Luna

TNMM107

Notitia

Brideman of Mithras

Excerpted from Mushroom, Myth and Mithras, this passage elaborates on the Mithraic ritual and the degree of Nymphus.

Notitia

Dazzling 'Temple of Colored Marbles' Honoring Roman God Discovered in Italy

The ancient Roman worshippers were likely in altered states of consciousness.

Monumentum

Mithras on a horse

This small bronze statuette of Mithras riding a horse is composed of two pieces.

TNMM574

Monumentum

Tauroctony marble from Mitreo Fagan

This sculpture of Mithras killing the bull was dedicated to the ’incomprehensible god’ by a certain priest called Gaius Valerius Heracles.

TNMM106 – CIMRM 310, 311

Sig(num) imdeprehensivilis dei G(aius) Valerius Heracles sacerdos s(ua) p(ecunia) p(osuit). L(ucius) Sextius Karus et.

Mithraeum

Mitreo della domus dei capitelli

Archaeologists discovered the 20th temple dedicated to Mithras in Ostia during the restoration of the domus del capitello di stucco in 2022.

TNMM757