The New Mithraeum Database

The relief of Mithras being born from the rock of the Esquiline shows the young god naked, as usual, with a torch and a dagger in his hands.

This black marble of Mithras killing the Bull has belonged to the sculptor Carlo Albacini.

Upper part of a marble relief (H. 0.12 Br. 0.13 D. 0.05), found in the Forum of Caesar.

Small marble base, found in one of the private houses along the Via Sacra nearly opposite to the Basilica of Constantine.

According to MMM II 436 No.

CIL XIII 546; MMM II No.

MMM II No.

It is not excluded, that a torso of a man (H. 0.24) of marble from Luna represents a torchbearer.

Marble relief (H. 0.43 Br. 0.18 D. 0.05).

Fragmentum marmoreum repertum in coemeterio ad duos Lauros via Labicana.

Cippus in vinea quadam via Salaria e regione coemeterii Priscillae.

N ella vigna del Marchese Patritii fuor di porta Pia.

White marble statue (H. 0.43 Br. 0.29), found in 1925 "sulla via Aurelia intorno al milliare undecimo nella tenuta denominata il Bottacio" (Lorium).

In 1946 Franz Cumont wrote me: "D'apres une notice que m'a communique Richard Wiinsch en 1910, Ie Lyceum Hosianum de Braunsberg en Prusse orientale possede (ou possMait car il n'existe peut-etre plus) un basrelief de Mithra, acquis pres de Rome"…

Marble slab, used as a tombstone in Comodilla's catacombs: "in vigna G.

Cippus marmoreus.

In vinea N ari 1734.

In plintho marmoreo olim in vinea Guidii, qui unde acceperit non constat.

About the next two monuments, no further data are known (cf. MMM II 485 No. 78c, bis): 1) In Palazzo Barberini (Zoega, Abh., 148 No.8).

Statue, once in the Collection Santa Croce near the Piazza Giudea.