The New Mithraeum Database

A bearded Bacchus and another hermes as a woman, both crowned with vine tendrils, were walled into the base of a niche.

TNMM683 – CIMRM 217

This magnificent candelabrum was found in Rome in 1803, in the Syrian Temple of Janicule.

TNMM682 – CIMRM 508, 509

This unusual mosaic representation of the god Silvanus was found in the Mithreaum of the so-called Imperial Palace in Ostia.

TNMM491 – CIMRM 252

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull from the Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres was discovered in 1802 by Petirini by order of Pope Pius VII.

TNMM144 – CIMRM 245, 246

The floor mosaic of the Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres, which gives its name to the temple, depicts a dagger.

TNMM607 – CIMRM 240

At the entrance to the Mithraeum of the Seven Sferes, Cautopates holds the torch with both hands and Cautes holds the torch in his right hand and a cock in his left.

TNMM608 – CIMRM 243

Diana-Luna, Mercurius, Jupiter, Saturn, Venus and Mars are depicted in the mosaics on the benches of this mithraeuma.

TNMM609 – CIMRM 241

The rich mosaics of the Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres include the the signs of the Zodiac.

TNMM610 – CIMRM 242

This is one of several marble inscriptions made by a certain Caelius Ermeros, who was the antistes of the Mithraeum of the Imperial Palace.

TNMM461 – CIMRM 259

The pater Aulus Aemilianus Antoninus dedicated an altar to Cautes in the Mitreo delle Pareti Dipinte.

This altar was originally consecrated to Hercules and was rededicated to Mithras by Callinicus in the Mithraeum of the House of Diana.

TNMM582 – CIMRM 219, 220

The image of the god Arimanius to which this monument refers has not yet been found.

TNMM482 – CIMRM 221, 222

The Mithraeum of the Snakes preserves paintings of serpents, representing Genius Loci, part of an older private sanctuary, which were respected in the temple of Mithras.

TNMM8 – CIMRM 294

The Mithraeum of Frutosus was in a temple assigned to the guild of the stuppatores.

TNMM40 – CIMRM 226

This coin was deposited in the upper level of the throne in the cult niche of the Mitreo della Planta Pedis.

TNMM557 – CIMRM 277

The marble Aion from the lost Mithraeum Fagan, Ostia, now presides the entrance to the Vatican Library.

TNMM116 – CIMRM 312, 313

The Mithraeum of Lucretius Menander was installed in the early 3rd century in an alley to the east of a Hadrianic building named after the solar god temple.

TNMM6 – CIMRM 224

The brick altar of the Mithraeum Menander was covered with marble slabs bearing a crescent and an inscription.

TNMM534 – CIMRM 225

Dedicated the main altar found in the Mithraeum of Menender.

The Mithraeum in the Chapel of the Three Naves was not linked to the cult of Mithras until recently because of a mosaic showing a pig, in the belief that it was an animal unfit for consumption in a temple of Eastern origin.

TNMM533