The New Mithraeum Database

Circular stone base wrapped by a serpent, possibly belonging to a representation of Aion.

Two surviving wall paintings from the side-benches of the Mithraeum at Spoleto, out of an original six, depicting a cloaked bearded man identified as Saturn holding a sickle and a youth in a red shoulder-cape holding a money-bag, probably representing the seven planets…

Two Mithraic monuments received by the Museo Nazionale delle Terme in Rome in 1896, reportedly from Narni: a small head of Mithras tauroctone in Phrygian cap with traces of red and gilding, and a central relief fragment of Mithras slaying the bull.

A statue found along the Via Cassia about six kilometres from Rome, tentatively identified as an Aion entwined by a serpent but possibly representing Atargatis according to Vermaseren, now in the Museo Nazionale delle Terme.

A marble relief depicting Cautopates as a standing cross-legged torchbearer in Eastern attire with his burning torch pointing downwards, found in Rome near the Via Appia and now in the Museo Nazionale delle Terme, the head and much of the torch lost.

A marble relief depicting Cautes as a standing cross-legged torchbearer in a short tunic and Phrygian cap with torch upraised and left hand lost, found in Rome near the Via Appia and now in the Museo Nazionale delle Terme.

A cippus found in a vineyard near the Via Salaria by the Coemeterium Priscillae outside Rome, inscribed by Q. Hostilius Euplastus, a leo of the Mithraic mysteries, dedicating a gift to the god.

Two lost Mithraic monuments from Rome: one documented in a 1738 catalogue of the Palazzo Barberini as a tauroctony group with scorpion, snake and dog, and another mentioned by Pirro Ligorio as a Mithras panel in the Palazzo del Duca di Sanseverino.

Two tauroctony statues formerly at the Villa del Grande near the Porta Maggiore in Rome, both lacking the upper part of Mithras and the bull's head.

A stone statue probably found in Rome, depicting a naked Mithras emerging from the rock with his index finger raised to his lips and his right arm broken off, described by Cumont as an unfinished work never completed.

Tauroctony relief formerly in the house of the Alterii near S. Marco in Rome, now of unknown whereabouts, described by Gruterus as showing Mithras pressing both knees onto the bull and grasping its horns with the knife in the shoulder, with scorpion, serpent, raven, Sol and Luna…

White marble statue of Cautopates in Eastern attire, cross-legged, pointing his torch downwards with both hands, probably found in Rome and now in the Altes Museum at Berlin; the head and front part of the left arm are restored.

Marble base in poor lettering found in the church of S. Maria de Cacabariis in Rome, recording the dedication by M. Aurelius Victor, vir clarissimus and prefect of the Feriae Latinae, to his patron Iovinus Callidianus, priest of Sol.

Marble tablet with a dedication by Brumasius to the holy table of Sol Mithras, set up in the presence of the pater with all the initiates.

Marble tablet with a dedication to Sol Invictus Mithras by Felix Messala together with the initiates Catellus and Dianus, decorated with a branch on each side.

Altar formerly in the house of the de Vellis family near the Carmelites in Rome and now in the Museo delle Terme, with a dedication to Silvanus on one side and on the reverse a record by M. Aurelius Bassus, priest of Sol, of having made a fountain flow.

Marble tablet in the Vatican Musea, Galleria Lapidaria, with a dedication to the Invictus and Urania by two initiates of the Leo grade, the text divided by four feet pointing in opposite directions as a pro itu et reditu formula.

Head in fine-grained marble in the Vatican Musea Magazzini, showing a curly-haired figure in a Phrygian cap turned to the left with a grievous expression, probably representing Mithras.

White marble statue of the lion-headed Aion standing on a cone decorated with a crescent, entwined in seven coils of a serpent and pressing claw-like hands against his body, each grasping a key; formerly in the Museo Torlonia, Rome.

Tauroctony relief in the Museo Torlonia, Rome, remarkable for having a large ant grasping the testicles in place of the scorpion, with the raven on Mithras' flying cloak, the dog and serpent near the wound, and the busts of Sol and Luna in the upper corners; no torchbearers represented…