The New Mithraeum Database

Two marble fragments of the same stone, with worn lettering, set into the floor of the church above S. Clemente, bearing dedications to Sol Invictus Mithras and to Jupiter Dolichenus.

Well with a drainage pipe and two oblong brick-built tombs in the room to the left of the entrance of the Mithraeum of San Clemente, one tomb filled with refuse and a large number of animal bones, particularly swine.

Marble statuette representing a bearded person as the Good Shepherd, found in the Dominicum Clementis opposite the Mithraeum of San Clemente; it definitively represents S. Peter, not a Mithraic father of the mysteries.

Sculptural fragments of two torchbearers from the Mithraeum of San Clemente, Rome.

Marble cippus of which only two sides are preserved, with a brief dedication to Cautes on the front face, from the Mithraeum of San Clemente, Rome.

Roof tile found at Portus, with an inscription recording the workshop of L. Aemilius Iulianus, priest of Sol and Luna.

Brief inscription on a marble vase fragment dedicated to the Invincible Sun God, from Portus.

Fragment of a marble vase found near Portus by Prince Torlonia, showing a bearded head in radiate crown (Sol) and Cautes with upraised torch, with a Mithras representation now lost, now itself lost.

Two marble frieze fragments with incised busts of Sol, Luna, Mars, Jupiter, and Venus, one found in 1890 in the outer porticus of the Theatre and one found in 1938 near the Mithraeum at Ostia.

Base in the form of an altar with five small bacchic herms and eleven lamps, from the Mitreo Sabazeo at Ostia.

Inscription dedicated to Sol Invictus, Omnipotent and Holy Caelestis, with Fortuna Lares and Tutelae, found near the Mitreo Sabazeo at Ostia, dedicated by Venerandus.

Marble slab with a vow to Iuppiter Sabazius made by imperial command, dedicated by L. Aemilius, from the Mitreo Sabazeo at Ostia.

Marble slab recording the exedra of Arpocrates, reused in the pavement of the floor of the Mitreo Sabazeo at Ostia.

Small undecorated altar of travertine without inscription, from the Mitreo dei Serpenti at Ostia.

Lower part of a torchbearer statue, cross-legged in anaxyrides and short tunic, from one of the bases at the beginnings of the podia in the Mitreo delle Sette Porte at Ostia.

Fragments of a green-glazed maiolica krater with silver sheen, probably decorated with a dodekatheon showing Minerva, Jupiter, Dionysus, and Hercules, from the Mitreo delle Sette Porte at Ostia.

Lamp with six wicks, found near the altar before the cult-niche in the Mitreo delle Sette Porte at Ostia.

Marble altar bearing a bust of Sol in radiate crown with Cautopates on the right and Cautes on the left, both cross-legged, from the Mitreo delle Pareti Dipinte at Ostia.

A small two-wick lamp and a larger twelve-wick lamp inscribed Serapiodori inny, from the Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale at Ostia.

Marble lion's head fastened into a wall, its flat square back indicating it was set into masonry, from the Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale at Ostia.