The New Mithraeum Database

Marble statue of the naked Mithras emerging from the rock, holding a dagger in his right hand and a torch in his left, visible to the knees, from the Mithraeum of S. Lorenzo in Damaso; the head is lost.

Marble statue of Cautopates in Eastern attire, cross-legged, leaning against a trunk and rocky stone with a cock beside his left foot, from the Mithraeum of S. Lorenzo in Damaso; the greater part of his arms and torch are lost.

Fragments of a marble relief preserving only the lower part, with Mithras slaying the bull, dog and serpent licking blood, a large scorpion, and Cautopates behind the bull pointing his torch downwards, from the Mithraeum of S. Lorenzo in Damaso.

Fragment of a marble tabella with an inscription beginning "invicto", from the Mithraeum of S. Lorenzo in Damaso, Rome.

Fragment of a marble tabula ansata with a palm-branch in the ansa and a partially legible inscription mentioning Sol, from the Mithraeum of S. Lorenzo in Damaso, probably dated to 253 A.D.

Marble tablet recording the dedication of a shrine to the Invictus God by L. Aurelius Severus, under the presidency of pater Domitius Marcellinus, dated to 181 A.D.

Inscription CIL VI 752 recording the transmission of the leontica grade by Nonius Victor Olympius and Aurelius Victor Augentius at the Mithraeum of Piazza S. Silvestro in Capite, dated to 359 and 358 A.D.

Inscription CIL VI 750 recording the transmission of the Persica and Heliaca grades by Nonius Victor Olympius and Aurelius Victor Augentius at the Mithraeum of Piazza S. Silvestro in Capite, dated to 358 A.D.

White marble statue of a standing cross-legged torchbearer in Eastern attire with traces of red painting, found in the Castra Pretoria in 1882; head, arms, and feet are lost and the monument could not subsequently be traced.

Ancient marble fragments walled into the staircase of the house at Via Boncompagni 101 (Boarding-house Cosmopolita), including a lower part of a Mithras bull-killing group and a fragment of a low-relief with the bullkilling; not traced by Vermaseren.

Graffito on the left wall of the Palazzo Barberini Mithraeum consisting of the single name Macarius.

Wall-painting on the last column but one of the Palazzo Barberini Mithraeum, showing a standing person in a short tunic with a wreath of ivy, carrying fruits in his left hand.

Wall-painting on the last column of the left bench in the Palazzo Barberini Mithraeum, showing a standing person pressing his left hand to his breast and extending his right hand towards a kneeling person whose head is covered with ivy.

Square marble slab walled in the right projecting elevation before the cult-niche of the Palazzo Barberini Mithraeum, with a dedication by Yperanthes (a Persian name) to the Invictus, inscribed in a red frame with traces of red and blue colour.

Black and white mosaic floor of the underground room used as a Mithraeum in the house of the Nummi Albani on the Quirinal; the mosaic ends about 1 metre from the side-walls, suggesting side-benches; Nummius Albinus was consul in 345 A.D.

Relief in plaster, fixed on the wall beside the Mithraic wall-painting (No. 386) in the house of the Nummi Albani on the Quirinal, with traces pointing to a representation of Mithras slaying the bull.

Possible Mithraeum discovered in 1869 near the previous sanctuary in Muti's gardens, described by Lanciani as a spelaeum cut in tufa with vestibule and cell with niches and altar, at the corner of the Via Nazionale and Via Venezia.

Marble altar found near S. Lorenzo in Piscibus in 1949, dedicated to the Great Mother, Attis, and the Invincible Mithras by Sextus Rusticus, vir clarissimus, pater patrum, proconsul of Africa between 371 and 373 A.D.

White marble slab showing Mithras as a bull-killer on a rocky base, found in 1928 by the Comtesse de Robillant in a cellar of the Palazzo del Grillo behind the Forum of Augustus; Mithras' head, both arms, and the bull's head and tail are lost.

Marble relief with the dressed busts of Sol with five rays, a long-bearded man, and Luna with crescent, found in the camp of the equites singulares near the Scala Santa, now in the Museo Nazionale delle Terme.