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The New Mithraeum Database

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CIMRM 628

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"…

 
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CIMRM 614

Groupe de marbre blanc trouve a Rome vers la fin de 1919.

 
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CIMRM 407

Marble inscribed slab recording the dedication of a Mithraeum and an antrum to Mithras for the safety and victories of Septimius Severus and his family, found in Rome.

 
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Mithras-Men from Rome

Relief possibly depicting Mithras-Men holding a torch and a a bust of Luna on a crescent.

 
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Tauroctony from Salita delle Tre Pile

White marble relief depicting Mithras killing the bull, found broken in two parts in 1872 near Salita delle Tre Pile in Rome.

 
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Dedication to Zeus-Helios, Mithras, and Phanes

This is the first known inscription that includes Phanes alongside Mithras found in a Mithraic context.

 
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Cippus à Zeus Helios great Serapis

This small cippus to Zeus, Helios and Serapis includes Mithras as one of the main gods, although some authors argue that it could be the name of the donor.

Socius

Jerome Pinto

 
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Petrogeny from Santo Stefano Rotondo

The sculpture of Mithras rock-birth from Santo Stefano Rotondo bears an inscription of Aurelius Bassinus, curator of the cult.

 
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Altar of Vieu

This altar was dedicated by a son to his father, one of the few Patres Patrum recorded in the western provinces.

 
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Head of Mithras from Santo Stefano Rotondo

The head was part of a stucco relief of the Tauroctony found under the church of Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rome

 
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Altar of Sol of Via del Mare

This small altar found in Rome depicts the god Sol with five rays around his head.

 
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Mithras tauroctonus and taurophorus vessel from Lanuvium

The red ceramic vessel from Lanuvium shows Mithra carrying the bull, followed by the dog, and the Tauroctony on the opposite side.

 
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Altar by Septimius Zosimus from Roma

This altar dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras by a certain Septimius Zosimus was found in the Basilica of San Martino ai Monti in Rome.

 
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Mitreo di Santa Prisca

The Mithraeum of Santa Prisca houses remarkable frescoes showing the initiates in procession.

 
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Tauroctony from Nesce

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull of Nersae includes several episodes from the exploits of the solar god.

 
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CIMRM 563

Marble altar dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras, found in Rome (in aedibus Maffaeiorum), set up in 183 A.D. by M. Ulpius Maximus, praepositus tabellariorum, together with its ornaments and Mithraic insignia, in fulfilment of a vow.

 
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Tauroctony relief from Villa Borghese

This is one of the three reliefs depicting Mithras killing the bull that the Louvre Museum acquired from the Roman Villa Borghese collection.

 
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CIMRM 625

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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