The New Mithraeum Database

The relief marble of Mithras sacrifying the bull, exposed on the Hermitage Museum comes from Rome.

TNMM308 – CIMRM 603, 604

This relief was found under the Palazzo Montecitorio, in Rome, and bought by the Liebighaus at Frankfort.

TNMM256 – CIMRM 430

The Tauroctony found in Velletri, Rome, bears an inscription from its owner and donor.

TNMM307

Mithras and other oriental gods were worshipped in the shrine of Zeus near the Villa of the Quintilians in Rome.

TNMM370 – CIMRM 634

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

TNMM165

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

TNMM329 – CIMRM 432, 433

This altar bears an inscription to the health of the emperor Commodus by a certain Marcus Aurelius, his father and two other fellows.

TNMM542 – CIMRM 510

With this analysis of Sol images, Steven E. Hijmans paints a new picture of the solar cult in ancient Rome. The paucity of literary evidence led Hijmans to prioritize visual sources, and he opens this study with a thorough discussion of the theoretical an…

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