The New Mithraeum Database

Wall-painting on the last column of the left bench in the Palazzo Barberini Mithraeum, showing a standing person pressing his left hand to his breast and extending his right hand towards a kneeling person whose head is covered with ivy.

Square marble slab walled in the right projecting elevation before the cult-niche of the Palazzo Barberini Mithraeum, with a dedication by Yperanthes (a Persian name) to the Invictus, inscribed in a red frame with traces of red and blue colour.

Possible Mithraeum discovered in 1869 near the previous sanctuary in Muti's gardens, described by Lanciani as a spelaeum cut in tufa with vestibule and cell with niches and altar, at the corner of the Via Nazionale and Via Venezia.

Mithraeum discovered towards the end of the 16th century in a vineyard of Horazio Muti opposite S. Vitale, between the Quirinal and Viminal hills, known from Vacca's report of a sealed room with many terracotta lamp-holders.

Marble relief with the dressed busts of Sol with five rays, a long-bearded man, and Luna with crescent, found in the camp of the equites singulares near the Scala Santa, now in the Museo Nazionale delle Terme.

Two marble fragments of the same stone, with worn lettering, set into the floor of the church above S. Clemente, bearing dedications to Sol Invictus Mithras and to Jupiter Dolichenus.

Roof tile found at Portus, with an inscription recording the workshop of L. Aemilius Iulianus, priest of Sol and Luna.

Brief inscription on a marble vase fragment dedicated to the Invincible Sun God, from Portus.

Fragment of a marble vase found near Portus by Prince Torlonia, showing a bearded head in radiate crown (Sol) and Cautes with upraised torch, with a Mithras representation now lost, now itself lost.

Inscription dedicated to Sol Invictus, Omnipotent and Holy Caelestis, with Fortuna Lares and Tutelae, found near the Mitreo Sabazeo at Ostia, dedicated by Venerandus.

Marble slab with a vow to Iuppiter Sabazius made by imperial command, dedicated by L. Aemilius, from the Mitreo Sabazeo at Ostia.

Marble slab recording the exedra of Arpocrates, reused in the pavement of the floor of the Mitreo Sabazeo at Ostia.

Lower part of a torchbearer statue, cross-legged in anaxyrides and short tunic, from one of the bases at the beginnings of the podia in the Mitreo delle Sette Porte at Ostia.

Fragments of a green-glazed maiolica krater with silver sheen, probably decorated with a dodekatheon showing Minerva, Jupiter, Dionysus, and Hercules, from the Mitreo delle Sette Porte at Ostia.

Marble lion's head fastened into a wall, its flat square back indicating it was set into masonry, from the Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale at Ostia.

Inscription dedicated to Sol pro salute et reditu et victoria, with Tato as pater sacrorum, from the Ager Albanus.

Altar inscription dedicated to Deus Invictus by Verus, an antistes, from Aesernia (modern Isernia).

Finds discovered near the crossing of the criptoporticus of the Mithraeum at Capua, including marble plate fragments, a tuff base, red lamps, and animal bones.

Miscellaneous finds from the middle of the Mithraeum of Capua, including a terracotta antefix with centaurs, basins, marble bases, lamps with a Sol head, and coins of M. Aurelius and Constantine.

Two scenes from the initiation sequence of the Mithraeum of Capua, now indistinguishable.