The New Mithraeum Database

The discovery of the Mithraeum of Tarquinia is due to the Department for Protection of Cultural Heritage of the Carabinieri, who noticed some clandestine excavations near the Ara della Regina.

Interview to one of the workers who participated in the discovery of the temple of Mithras of Marino, Rome.

Visitors to new museum will uncover mystery cult of Mithras the bull slayer in multi-sensory experience.

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

Fragment of a limestone low-relief (H. 0.33 Br. 0.19), found at S.

In the old Sentinum there certainly existed a Mithraeum.

Fragment of marble relief (H. 0.30 Br. 0.33 D. 0.04)' probably from Narni, but the exact find-spot is unknown.

Marble relief (H. 0.63 Br. 1.07 D. 0.025-0.03), broken in two pieces.

Marble statue (H. 0.65), found at Torrita near Nazzano in the beginning of the 19th century.

Fragment of a white marble relief (H. 0.40 Br. 0.36 -0.10 D. 0.037-0.06), found together with the following No.

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).

Fragment of a white marble relief (H. about 0.60 Br. about 0.67).

Statue in stone (H. 0.95).

Marble base "von zwei Palmen ins Gevierte, wenig mehr als einen halben Palme dick".

Fragment of red ware.

Small bronze figure (H. 0.11), which served as a handle of a patera (Zoega) or a knife (Lajard).

In basi plana in qua fragment a pedum statuae superpositae adhuc extant .

The Museum of the Therms has also a marble statue of a cross-legged torch- bearer (H. 0.58) in Eastern attire, cross-legged (Inv. No. 283).

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