The New Mithraeum Database

Small marble column dedicated by Iunia Zosime, mater, to Virtus Dendrophori from silver weighing two pounds, from the Mitreo degli Animali at Ostia.

Marble altar found near the entrance of the Mitreo delle Sette Porte at Ostia, dedicated by Sextus Fusinius Felix.

This altar from Grumentum in Lucania was dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras by Titus Flavius Saturninus, an evocatus in imperial service.

Upper fragment of a marble relief depicting Cautes, discovered in the Forum of Caesar in Rome.

Callatis developed as an important Black Sea port on the western coast of the Pontus Euxinus.

Alesia became famous as the site of Caesar’s decisive siege during the Gallic Wars.

An inscription from Villa Vicentina, a locality near Aquileia in the Friuli, recording a dedication to Deus Invictus by L. Aebutius Eutychius, a freedman of Primus.

An inscription recording the completion and dedication of the Temple of Sol at Como by T. Flavius Postumius Titianus, corrector of Italy, by order of the emperors Diocletian and Maximian, with Axilius the Younger as curator of the city of the Comenses.

A military inscription from Aquileia, dedicated to the Invincible Mithras by Flavius Exuperatus and several soldiers from the Third Italic and Thirteenth Gemina legions, acting as lustration agents for their commanders Flavius Sabinus and Aurelius Zeno, dated to around 244 A.D…

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull of Nersae includes several episodes from the exploits of the solar god.

The Mithraeum of Santa Prisca houses remarkable frescoes showing the initiates in procession.

Marble base found in 1764 on the Aventine with a dedication to Sol by C. Rufus Volusianus, vir clarissimus, who held the offices of pater, hierophant, prophet of Isis and pontifex of the Sun, dated to the 4th century A.D.

The Mitreo delle terme di Caracalla is one of the largest temples dedicated to Mithras ever found in Rome.

This remarkable Greek marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was discovered in 1705 and remained in private collections until it was bought by the Louvre.

Large marble slab found in 1648 near S. Silvestro in Capite, inscribed with a Latin dedicatory poem forming a cypher-acrostic for TAMESIUS and AUGENTIUS, with records of leontica and chrysos initiations, dated to 362 A.D.

This monument was erected on the occasion of the elevation of a member to the Mithraic grade of Perses.

Wall-painting of Mithras tauroktonos in fresco, discovered in 1886 in an underground room of the house of the Nummi Albani on the Quirinal (Via Firenze); the god wears a red cap and tunic, the torchbearers wear yellow or orange tunic and cap with green or brown anaxyrides…

Small semi-round base found on the Monte Quirinale in Via Mazzarini, from a small Mithraeum, with a dedication to Mithras by T. Camurenus Philadelfus through Nonius Firmus pater.

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.

The Tauroctony relief of Mithras killing the bull walled in the Cortile of the Belvedered, Vatican City, was found by Fagan near Ostia.