The New Mithraeum Database

Altar, found not far from the Eastern entrance of the cult-room.

Limestone statue (H. 0.93).

Statue in limestone (H. 0.76).

Limestone relief (H. 0.68), found approximately in the middle of the central aisle (1898) together with the two following Nos.

Relief in limestone, the greater fragment (H. about 2.00) was found before the altars Nos 863-4; the four smaller fragments in the centre of the cult-room (1822).

We still have to mention a naked foot beside the remnants of a tree-trunk (Inv. No. 576) and remnants of a marble seat or table, on which an acanthus-leaf, with the head and neck of a lion emerging out of it (Melida, Cat. Badajoz, Nos. 1086 and 1095).

Marble statue (H. 1.48).

Marble statue (H. 1.58).

Marble statue (H. 1.34).

Marble statuette (H. 0.52), found in 1902.

Fragment of white marble statue (H. 0.29 Br. 0.39).

Statuette in polychromatic marble (H. 0.20), found in 1904 near the ruins of the theatre.

This graffito seems to be an account of offerings made by Mithras worshippers in the Cassegiato di Diana.

The Mithraeum of the Animals was decorated with a mosaic depicting a naked man, a cock, a raven, an scorpion, a snake and the head of the bull.

Prefect of the First Cohort of Batavians, of the Ultinian voting-tribe.

Roman emperor at the age of 14, from 218 to his death in 222, Elagabalus was a main priest of the sun god Elagabal in Emesa.

Imperial slave and an overseer of the Imperial estates who dedicated a Tauroctony to the Invincible god Sol.

Roman veteran stationed on the island of Andros, where he built a temple to Mithras.

Priest of Mithras who dedicated an altar to Petra Genetrix in Carnuntum.

Governor of Numidia in 303, vir perfectissimus Valerius Florus was a well-known persecutor of Christians.