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The New Mithraeum Database

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Procession Fresco from Santa Prisca

Figures in procession, each representing a different grade of Mithraic initiation, labeled with their respective titles.

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Inscription of Santi Marcellino e Pietro al Laterano

This inscription mentions a Pater for the first known time.

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Marble inscription for a cult image of Mithras from Rome

Marble inscription recording the dedication of a cult image to the unconquered Mithras by a certain pater Valerius Marinus from Rome.

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Mitreo di San Silvestro in Capite

This Mithraic temple, also known as the Mithraeum of the Olympii, dates to the 3rd century and was rediscovered in 15th-century Rome, but it has not been preserved.

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Fragmentary tauroctony relief from Rome

Fragmentary relief corner depicting Mithras as bull-slayer, preserving the bull’s hindquarters, scorpion, serpent and part of a torchbearer, with a partial inscription.

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Petrogenesis statue acquired in Rome

Mithras being born from the rock (petrogenia), acquired in Rome and formerly kept in Berlin.

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Mitreo della Crypta Balbi

The Mithraeum of the Crypta Balbi was locted in the middle of a densely populated insula near the theatre of Cornelius Balbus.

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Tauroctony from Mithras and Tellus

This tauroctony relief is distinguished by the rare depiction of Tellus reclining beneath the bull.

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Base with inscription of Priscus Eucheta to Navarze

This inscription, which doesn’t mention Mithras, was found near the church of Santa Balbina on the Aventine in Rome.

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Aion of Villa Albani

White marble statue of Lion-head god of time, formerly in the Villa Albani, nowadays in the Musei Vaticani.

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Tiberius Claudius Hermes

He commissioned the main cult relief found in the Mithraeum of Circo Massimo.

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Marcus Limbricius Polides

Decurion and member of the same college as Aemilius Chrysanthus.

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Titus Flavius Hyginus Ephebianus

Freedman who dedicated the first monument mentioning a Pater.

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Marcus Aemilius Chrysanthus

Freedman of the two Marcus and 'magister of the first year'.

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Myro

Son of the slave Fructus.

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Flavius Septimius Zosimus

Vir perfectissimus and priest of Zeus Brontes and Hekate, he erected a mithraeum in Rome.

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Proficentius

Pater sacrorum and founder of the Mithraeum under the Basilica of S. Lorenzo.

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Agatho

Agatho has dedicated several monuments to Mithras in the Coelian Hill.

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Lollius Rufus

This is the first Pater mentioned in an inscription known to date.

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Theodoros

One of the lions mentioned on the Santa Prisca procession fresco.

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