The New Mithraeum Database

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).

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.

Terracotta relief with the representation of Victoria, slaying a bull.

On the first layer of the left wall there are three lines in the section above door b' on both sides of which are two series of respectively three and two other lines.

Small marble base, which seems to have been found in the same sanctuary during former excavations.

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.

Marble relief of Mithras as a bull-killer.

Small lamp with the representation of a ram.

Fragments of a small lamp with the lower part of the bust of Luna in a crescent.

Lower part of a statuette (H. 0.153 Br. 0.08) of Minerva, dressed in a long chiton.

Two white marble statues (H. 0.51 and 0.47), found in 1886 "sotto illato setten- trionale del Palatino fra questo colle e la Via S.

White marble statue (H. 0.50), found in the Castra Pretoria in 1882.

On the last column but one, a standing person in short tunic with a wreath of ivy.

The floor of this appartment was covered with black and white mosaic.

Beside the preceding No.

Lanciani, Storia Scavi, III, 200 gives another interesting note about a second Mithraeum, discovered in 1869 near the previous sanctuary in Muti's gardens.

Towards the end of the 16th century a Mithraeum was discovered between the Quirinalis and the Viminalis.

Pars superior parvae columnae marmoreae litteris saeculi secundi exeuntis vel tertii effossa ut videtur in Esquilino.

Duo fragmenta marmorea facile eiusdem lapidis litteris detritis in ecclesiae pavimento inserta.

Marble cippus, of which two sides only have been preserved (H. 0.40 Br. 0.37).