The New Mithraeum Database

In 1946 Franz Cumont gave me the following information: "Voici deux monu- ments qui ont passe dans Ie commerce et dont Ie possesseur actuel est inconnu: Froehner, Collection Hoffmann Antiquites No.

Statue in stone (H. 0.95).

Marble statue (H. 0.27).

White marble statue (H. 0.61).

In basi plana in qua fragment a pedum statuae superpositae adhuc extant .

In aedibus custodis Cancelleriae.

Arula marmorea in aedibus custodis Cancelleriae.

Prati di Castello.

Ara cui tympanum deest in domo Francisci Novelli apud S.

White marble statue (H. 0.59 Br. 0.20 base).

White marble statuette (H. 0.82 Br. 0.17).

White marble relief (H. 0.50 Br. about 0.60), walled in the back-wall of the Casino of the Villa Giustiniani (nowadays Massimi-P. Lancelotti).

Ara marmorea in hortis Iustineaneis ad portam Flaminiam.

The Museum of the Therms has also a marble statue of a cross-legged torch- bearer (H. 0.58) in Eastern attire, cross-legged (Inv. No. 283).

White marble statuette (H. 0.49).

In the lower strata of sand of the Mithraeum, two coins of Commodus and one of his wife, Crispina, two of Diocletianus and one of Galerius, one of Constans and two of Valens were found.

Strongly oxydised leaden plate (H. 0.55 Br. 0.43 D. 0.003), on which Sol is represented with seven rays round his curly head.

A marble mortar (H. 0.125) ; pieces of glass; a great number of plates and dishes; moreover lamps, dating from the first four centuries.

During the excavations of the Dolichenum on the Aventine in 1935, two Mithraic monuments have been discovered and besides statues of Sol, Luna, Venus, Silvanus and Hercules.

Pieces of roughly worked stone may point at a representation of Mithras' rock- birth.