The New Mithraeum Database

A few pieces of tuff worked as rocks, forming a cone representing the remnants of the rock-birth of Mithras, found around the altar in the Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale at Ostia.

Two marble fragments of a statue of Mithras as bull-killer, preserving the head in Phrygian cap and right hand with dagger, with traces of red paint, from the Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale at Ostia.

A small hollow edicola of simple square structure near altar K, with an opening for lamp offerings, from the Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale at Ostia.

Two small tuff altars walled into the corners of the benches, each bearing a representation of a jug, from the Mitreo delle Sette Sfere at Ostia.

A group of small finds from an Ostia Mithraeum, including three tuff altars, two trapezophores, a column fragment, lamps, vases, and a marble Silen.

Inscription dedicated to Sol pro salute et reditu et victoria, with Tato as pater sacrorum, from the Ager Albanus.

Fragmentary marble tablet inscription mentioning Sol Invictus Mithras and a priest, from Tivoli (ancient Tibur), possibly of urban origin.

Fragment of a relief showing Mithras as bull-killer with unusual eagle-headed dagger handle and Sol in a quadriga, from Tivoli (ancient Tibur), known only through an inaccurate engraving by Barbault.

Fragment of a white marble statue of Mithras tauroktonos with dog, serpent and scorpion, upper body and right leg missing, found at Praeneste (modern Palestrina).

Altar inscription dedicated to Deus Invictus by Verus, an antistes, from Aesernia (modern Isernia).

Two marble busts of youthful figures with Phrygian caps, probably representing the torchbearers Cautes and Cautopates, from the Villa Borghese collection, found at Formiae.

Finds discovered near the crossing of the criptoporticus of the Mithraeum at Capua, including marble plate fragments, a tuff base, red lamps, and animal bones.

Miscellaneous finds from the middle of the Mithraeum of Capua, including a terracotta antefix with centaurs, basins, marble bases, lamps with a Sol head, and coins of M. Aurelius and Constantine.

Fresco fragment from the initiation sequence of the Mithraeum of Capua, of which only the heads and parts of the white tunica of two figures remain visible.

Two scenes from the initiation sequence of the Mithraeum of Capua, now indistinguishable.

Fresco showing a mystagogus pressing down the shoulders of a kneeling myste, attended by a third figure in Phrygian cap, from the initiation sequence of the Mithraeum of Capua.

Fresco showing two persons standing behind each other, from the initiation sequence of the Mithraeum of Capua.

Fresco showing a standing figure in a small cloak approached by two other persons, from the initiation sequence of the Mithraeum of Capua.

Badly damaged fresco fragment showing a person in red attire in a kneeling position, from the initiation sequence of the Mithraeum of Capua.

Fresco depicting Cautopates in Eastern attire between two laurels, cross-legged, pointing his torch downwards over a burning altar, from the Mithraeum of Capua.