The New Mithraeum Database

Fragments of a marble relief (H. 0.66 Br. 0.955 D. 0.065).

Franz Cumont kindly drew our attention on several ancient fragments, walled in the wall of the flight of steps in the house at the Via Boncompagni 101 (boarding- house Cosmopolita).

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Wall-painting in the house of the Nummi Albani's family on the Quirinalis, Via Firenze near the Ministerio della Guerra.

A low-relief of Mithras tauroctone was found in 1928 by the Comtesse de Robi- lant in a cellar, full of the debris of the Palazzo del Grillo behind the Forum of Augustus.

Fragments of a marble relief, which decorated the cult niche.

Two fragments of a marble statue.

Fragment of a relief.

Fragment of white marble statue (H. 0.29 Br. 0.39).

Fragment of a relief (H. 0.63), found at Labicum "nella vigna di Luigi Domi- nicis, situata fra Colonna e la strada corriera" in the ruins of an Roman villa.

Greyish marble relief (H. 0.84 Br. 0.99 D. 0.07), probably from Naples.

Left part of a bas-relief (H. 1.22 Br. 1.00), found in 1882 at Tirnziouin near Saida.

Relief (proportion unknown) found in 1861 making excavations in the cavalry barracks at SHif.

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Damaged statue.

Marble head (H. 0.15), found under the threshold of the Iseum at Cyrene.

The temple of Mithras of Carrawburgh, Brocolita, disclosed three main stages of development, the second exhibiting two reconstructions.

Porphyry states that the Mithraists “perfect their initiate by inducting him into a mystery of the descent of souls and their exit back out again, calling the place a ‘cave’.”