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  • Monumentum

    Two-sided relief of Fiano Romano

    The marble shows Mithras slaying the bull, on one side, and Sol and Mithras feasting on a bull skin, on the other.

    TNMM151 – CIMRM 641

  • Monumentum

    Second Petrogeny of Santo Stefano Rotondo

    The second statue of Mithras rock-birth was found in the Mitreo di Santo Stefano Rotondo shows a childish Mitras emerging from the rock.

    TNMM364

  • Monumentum

    Head of Sol / Helios intarsio from Sant Prisca

    The intarsium of Sol found in the Mithraeum of Santa Prisca is composed of several varieties of marble.

    TNMM385

  • Monumentum

    Mithras petrogenitus of the Esquilino

    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.

    TNMM381 – CIMRM 353

  • Mithraeum

    Mitreo dell'Esquilino

    In a house from the time of Constantine, a Lararium was found with a statue of Isis-Fortuna. The Mithraeum was a door next to it, on a lower room.

    TNMM83 – CIMRM 356

  • Mithraeum

    Mitreo d'Orazio Muti

    This Mithraic temple, now disappeared, is known thanks to the numerous remains recorded since 1594 in the 'Memorie di varie antichità trovate in diversi luoghi della città di Roma'.

    TNMM99

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Quirinale

    This sculpture of Mithras sacrificing the bull was found in the Quirinal and is now on display in the Musei Capitolini.

    TNMM321 – CIMRM 385

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of St. Andrä vor dem Hagenthale

    The votive image was donated by a certain Verus for a mithraeum which was probably located in the hinterland of the Limes.

    TNMM315

    D(eus) I(nvictus) M(ithras) VERUS PRO SALUTE / COMACIA(E) ET COM(MAGENORUM) V(otum) S(olvit) L(ibens) M(erito)
  • Mithraeum

    Mithréum de Vieu

    TNMM93

  • Monumentum

    Submission scene from Barberini

    This scene of the main fresco of the Mithraeum Barberini seems to depict part of the initiation into the Mithraic Mysteries.

    TNMM283