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Mitreo presso Porta Romana

Excavated in 1919, the Mithraeum near the Roman Gate was installed in the 3rd century within a larger building complex.

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Mitreo del caseggiato di Diana

The Mithraeum of the House of Diana was installed in two Antonine halls, northeast corner of the House of Diana, in the late 2nd or early 3rd century.

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Mitreo dei Serpenti

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.

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Mitreo di Fructosus

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

Monumentum

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.

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Mitreo di Lucrezio Menandro

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.

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Mitreo Fagan

The Mitreo Fagan revealed remarkable sculptures of leon-headed figures now exposed at the Vatican Museum.

Locus

Ostia (Ostia)

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.

Monumentum

El sueño de Mitra

Syndexios

Marcus Umbilius Kriton

Patronus of the corpus lenunculariorum tabulariorum auxiliariorum Ostiensium.

Monumentum

Tauroctony from 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.

Liber

I Misteri del Sole. Il culto di Mithra nell’Italia Antica

A study of Roman Mithraism that combines historical evidence with a symbol-centred interpretive approach, exploring Mithraic iconography, ritual experience, and the cult’s encounter with Christianity in the Late Empire.

Syndexios

Marcus Lollianus Callinicus

Pater at Caseggiato di Diana.

Syndexios

Lucius Agrius Fructosus

Patron of the Ostian college of stuppatores

Monumentum

Cautes and Cautópates of Palazzo Imperiale

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

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Small cippus of Aurelius Crescens from the Mitreo Sabazeo

Small cippus found opposite the Theatre at Ostia, with a dedication by brothers Aurelius Crescens and Naima Victor Patri for the restoration of the ruined Mithraeum, third century A.D.

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Marble frieze fragments with planetary gods from the Mitreo Sabazeo

Two marble frieze fragments with incised busts of Sol, Luna, Mars, Jupiter, and Venus, one found in 1890 in the outer porticus of the Theatre and one found in 1938 near the Mithraeum at Ostia.

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Altar-shaped base with bacchic herms and lamps from the Mitreo Sabazeo

Base in the form of an altar with five small bacchic herms and eleven lamps, from the Mitreo Sabazeo at Ostia.

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