The New Mithraeum Database

A white marble relief fragment found with its companion piece near Nomento on the Via Nomentana, showing only the lower body of a cross-legged torchbearer in a short tunic, now in the storerooms of the Museo Nazionale in Rome.

Small marble altar from the house of the guardian of the Cancelleria in Rome, with a dedication of an altar to Sol by L. Spedius Quadratus.

Small marble altar from the house of the guardian of the Cancelleria in Rome, dedicated to Sol Sacrum in fulfilment of a vow by C. Iulius Helius, a blacksmith, decorated with a urceus on the left and a patera on the right.

Marble altar lacking its tympanum, found in the house of Franciscus Novellus near S. Marco in Rome, dedicated to Sol Invictus by T. Pomponius Repentinus, a nomenclator and keeper of public records, with two denarii distributed at the dedication; dated to 184 A.D…

Small square marble altar found in the house of Volterra on the Monte Pincio in Rome, with a dedication to Sol Invictus in fulfilment of a vow by Q. Codius Philo.

Fragment of a grey marble slab formerly in the Palazzo Caponii and now in the Vatican Musea, Galleria Lapidaria, with an inscription on two arched borders and a leaping ox in the blank space.

Marble slab walled into the ledge of bench p in the S. Prisca Mithraeum, with a brief dedication to the two Invicti domini Augusti.

Graffito on the outside of the left wall of the niche in the S. Prisca Mithraeum, recording a birth before daybreak on 20 November 202 A.D., a Saturday with an eighteenth-day moon, under the consulate of Severus and Antoninus.

Marble slab from the S. Prisca Mithraeum with a dedication to Sol Invictus Mithre thanking his divine will for repeatedly answering prayers and enjoining the fulfilment of vows.

Small fragment of a marble piece of rock from the S. Prisca Mithraeum on the Aventine, probably a remnant of a Mithraic rock-birth scene.

Small fragment of a naked Venus statuette from the S. Prisca Mithraeum on the Aventine, Rome.

Marble triangle with a semicircular opening in the middle, from the S. Prisca Mithraeum on the Aventine, Rome.

Marble statue of Venus entirely naked in the act of leaving her bath, wringing her hair which streams over her shoulders, with a dolphin by her side, found in the small room of the Caracalla Mithraeum; the head is lost.

Partially legible graffito scratched on the back wall of room M in the Palazzo dei Musei Mithraeum, Rome.

Marble slab from the Palazzo dei Musei Mithraeum bearing a pierced star in the centre and a dedication to the Invictus by L. Reminius Fortunatus.

Fragment of a large dolium from the Palazzo dei Musei Mithraeum, decorated with two small columns supporting a facade and a youth standing between them playing the flute and holding a stick in his left hand.

Small lamp decorated with a flying Victoria holding a crown in her right hand and a palm-branch in her left, from the Mithraeum at the Palazzo dei Musei, Rome.

Lower part of a small statuette of Minerva in a long chiton, leaning on a shield with her left hand, from the Mithraeum at the Palazzo dei Musei, Rome.

Graffito on the left wall of the Palazzo Barberini Mithraeum consisting of the single name Macarius.

Marble altar found in the pontifical gardens on the Quirinal Hill, with a dedication to the Invictus N(abarze?) by Atticus pater, decorated with a urceus on the left and a patera on the right.