The New Mithraeum Database

Capua is currently a city and comune in the province of Caserta, in the region of Campania, southern Italy, situated 25 km north of Naples, on the northeastern edge of the Campanian plain.

Fresco showing a scene of initiation into the mysteries of Mithras in the Mithraeum of Santa Maria Capua Vetere.

TNMM234 – CIMRM 188, 1505

The main fresco of the Mithraeum of Santa Maria Capua Vetere portrays Mithras slaughtering a white bull.

TNMM169 – CIMRM 181, 1369

The Mithraeum of Santa Maria Capua Vetere preserves frescoes depicting several scenes of the initiation rites.

TNMM23 – CIMRM 180, 5500

This scene from the frescoes of the Mitreo di Santa Maria Capua Vetere shows a kneeling, naked man surrounded by two other figures.

TNMM333 – CIMRM 191, 637

In the Mithraeum of S. Capua Veteres, Cautes stands between two laurel trees.

TNMM254 – CIMRM 182, 747

The Mithraeum of Santa Maria Capua Vetere includes a marble relief depicting a child Eros guiding Psyche through the dark.

TNMM174 – CIMRM 186, 1024

The vault of the Mithraeum in S. Capua Vetere is decorated with stars that have holes in their centers, which once held colorful glass decorations.

TNMM175, 675

Luna riding a biga in the Mithraeum of Santa Capua Vetere.

TNMM193 – CIMRM 184, 678

Minto has claimed that the time god Aion was painted on the corner of the north wall of the Mitreo de Santa Capua Vetere.

TNMM735 – CIMRM 185, 475

Fresco depicting an initiation scene from the Mithraeum of Capua Vetere.

TNMM898 – CIMRM 194

Laurent Bricault has revolutionised Mithraic studies with the exhibition The Mystery of Mithras. Meet this professor in Toulouse for a fascinating look at the latest discoveries and what lies ahead.

Representation of a person lying prostrate on the ground between two other walking figures on the Mitreo of Santa Capua Vetere.

TNMM736 – CIMRM 193, 649

Video of the Comune di Marino on the Mithraeum of Marino

Peter Mark Adams: ‘The initiation was a frightening experience that caused some people to panic as a flood of otherworldly entities swept through the ritual space.’

This fresco, found in the Santa Capua Vetere Mithraeum, depicts what seems to be an initiate falling forward because someone is pressing down on his shoulders.

TNMM899 – CIMRM 195

Soy Dra. en Filosofía y Letras por la Universidad de Alicante. He escrito un libro sobre Mitra denominado "Los templos del dios Mitra en el Imperio romano".

The scholiast Lactantius Placidus comments on Statius’ passage identifying the Sun as Titan, Osiris, and Mithras, interpreting the Persian cave figure with the bull.

The pater Artemidorus seems to be an Augustan freedman of the Claudians, of Eastern origin.

Agatho has dedicated several monuments to Mithras in the Coelian Hill.