The New Mithraeum Database

Two small fragments of a relief with the representation of Mithras tauroctone and the two torchbearers in a grotto.

During the excavations of the Dolichenum on the Aventine in 1935, two Mithraic monuments have been discovered and besides statues of Sol, Luna, Venus, Silvanus and Hercules.

Basis marmorea anno 1764 in monte Aventino effossa.

Small marble relief (H. 0.20 Br. 0.25 D.0.06).

Pieces of roughly worked stone may point at a representation of Mithras' rock- birth.

Marble relief of Mithras as a bull-killer.

Ghislanzoni, 324f and fig.

Fragment of a Greek marble relief (H. 0.35 Br. 0.30 D. 0.12), found in the Via Borgo Vecchio.

On a small marble slab.

Graffito on the back-wall of room M.

On two fragments of greyish marble.

On a fragment of a marble slab.

On a marble slab with a pierced star in the centre.

Small lamp with the representation of a ram.

Fragments of a small lamp with the lower part of the bust of Luna in a crescent.

Fragment of a large dolium, on which two small columns, supporting a facade.

A small lamp (diam. 0.11) on which a flying Victoria has been represented, holding a crown in the r.

Further other small finds were made such as bones of animals, tusks of boars, pieces of marble, among which one with the outlines of a fish, bronze objects such as e.

Bust of a man in lorica and paludamentum.

Base of a Venus-statuette (H. 0.135 Br. 0.075); only the feet and on the right side a jug, upon which a cloth, have been preserved.