The New Mithraeum Database

Although the site at Cerro de San Albín is not a Mithraeum, archaeologists have found several monuments related to the cult of Mithras.

TNMM29 – CIMRM 772

Jaime Alvar speculates that the Gran Mitreo de Mérida could have been located in this area, based on a series of materials unearthed by Mélida during the excavations of 1926 and 1927.

TNMM585

Fragment of a marble relief (H. 0.27 Br. 0.38 D. 0.045).

TNMM1141 – CIMRM 635

Partial marble statue of Mithras as a bullkiller found near Viale Latino, about 200 meters from Porta San Giovanni.

TNMM969 – CIMRM 374

Franz Cumont considers the bas relief of Osterburken ’the most remarkable of all the monuments of the cult of Mithras found up to now’.

TNMM176 – CIMRM 1292, 1293

The Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres (Sette Sfere) is of great importance for the understanding of the cult, because of its black-and-white mosaics depicting the planets, the zodiac and related elements.

TNMM9 – CIMRM 239

A naked Mithra emerges from the cosmic egg surrounded by the zodiac, as always carrying a torch and a dagger.

TNMM200 – CIMRM 860

The small Mithraic altar found at Cerro de San Albin, Merida, bears an inscription to the health of a certain Caius Iulius.

TNMM427 – CIMRM 795

This fragmented altar was found in two pieces that Ana Osorio Calvo has recently brought together.

TNMM586

Small white marble altar made in honour of Mithras found at San Albín, Mérida.

TNMM426 – CIMRM 796

This cylindrical marble altar was dedicated by the same Pater Proficentius as the slab, both monuments found in the Mithraeum beneath the Basilica of San Lorenzo.

TNMM439 – CIMRM 422

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

TNMM782 – CIMRM 360

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

This marble sculpture from Sicily, known as the Randazzo Vecchio or Rannazzu Vecchiu, contains some essential elements of the Mithraic Aion, the lion-headed god.

TNMM773

This marble slab, found in the Mithraeum of San Clemente, bears an inscription by a certain Aelius Sabinus for the health of the Emperor Antoninus Pius and his sons.

TNMM739 – CIMRM 347

This marble bust of Sol, found in the Mitreo di San Clemente, had five holes in the head where rays had been fixed.

TNMM738 – CIMRM 343

The altar of the Mithraeum of San Clemente bears the Tauroctony on the front, Cautes and Cautopates on the right and left sides and a serpent on the back.

TNMM469 – CIMRM 339, 340

This high stele by a certain Acilius Pisonianus bears an inscription commemorating the restoration of a Mithraeum in Mediolanum, today's Milan.

TNMM650 – CIMRM 706

In this inscription, found in Angera in Lombardy, Mithras is referred to by the unicum 'adiutor'.

TNMM621 – CIMRM 717

Both of them were discovered in 1609 in the foundations of the façade of the church of San Pietro, Rome.

TNMM620 – CIMRM 513, 514