The New Mithraeum Database

Coins found in the lower sandy strata of the S. Prisca Mithraeum, ranging from the time of Claudius to the late 4th century, including issues of Commodus, Crispina, Diocletianus, Galerius, Constans and Valens.

Marble base from the S. Prisca Mithraeum composed of two vases stacked on top of each other, which probably supported a statue.

Two Mithraic monuments discovered during the 1935 excavations of the Dolichenum on the Aventine, together with statues of Sol, Luna, Venus, Silvanus and Hercules, now in the Museo Capitolino; the only certain Mithraic finds from a Dolichenum.

Miscellaneous small finds from the Mithraeum at the Palazzo dei Musei, Rome, including animal bones, tusks of boars, marble pieces, bronze objects, glass fragments, and a tile with a Domitianic inscription.

Pair of white marble statues — Cautes with upraised torch and a cock, and Cautopates with a bird at his feet — found in 1886 on the north side of the Palatine between the hill and Via S. Teodoro, with traces of red painting on base and sides.

Black and white mosaic floor of the underground room used as a Mithraeum in the house of the Nummi Albani on the Quirinal; the mosaic ends about 1 metre from the side-walls, suggesting side-benches; Nummius Albinus was consul in 345 A.D.

Mithraeum discovered towards the end of the 16th century in a vineyard of Horazio Muti opposite S. Vitale, between the Quirinal and Viminal hills, known from Vacca's report of a sealed room with many terracotta lamp-holders.

Fragment of a large marble tablet with large letters of poor 5th-century workmanship, found on the Monte Quirinale near the Via Nazionale, bearing poetic Mithraic references to the mystes of Ceres and the Invincible Mithras.

White marble slab showing Mithras as a bull-killer on a rocky base, found in 1928 by the Comtesse de Robillant in a cellar of the Palazzo del Grillo behind the Forum of Augustus; Mithras' head, both arms, and the bull's head and tail are lost.

Two marble fragments of the same stone, with worn lettering, set into the floor of the church above S. Clemente, bearing dedications to Sol Invictus Mithras and to Jupiter Dolichenus.

Well with a drainage pipe and two oblong brick-built tombs in the room to the left of the entrance of the Mithraeum of San Clemente, one tomb filled with refuse and a large number of animal bones, particularly swine.

Inscription dedicated to the Numen Caelesti by P. Clodius Flavius Venerandus, sevir augustalis, who acted in response to a dream, from the Mitreo Sabazeo at Ostia.

Small marble base with a dedication by T. Annius Lucullus, sevir and quinquennalis, to Martis Dendrophoris Ostiensium, from the Mitreo degli Animali at Ostia, dated to 143 A.D.

Small marble cippus dedicated by C. Atilius Bassus, freedman and apparator of a priest of the Great Mother, to Silvanus dendrophoris, from the Mitreo degli Animali at Ostia.

Marble altar bearing a bust of Sol in radiate crown with Cautopates on the right and Cautes on the left, both cross-legged, from the Mitreo delle Pareti Dipinte at Ostia.

Marble cap mentioned by Visconti, subsequently identified as certainly belonging to the finds of the Mitreo degli Animali rather than the Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale, Ostia.

Two small tuff altars walled into the corners of the benches, each bearing a representation of a jug, from the Mitreo delle Sette Sfere at Ostia.

Fragment of a relief showing Mithras as bull-killer with unusual eagle-headed dagger handle and Sol in a quadriga, from Tivoli (ancient Tibur), known only through an inaccurate engraving by Barbault.

Two marble busts of youthful figures with Phrygian caps, probably representing the torchbearers Cautes and Cautopates, from the Villa Borghese collection, found at Formiae.

Inscription dedicated to Sol Invictus with a votive formula pro salute, from Mozaïaville.