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The New Mithraeum Database

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Base of bluish marble with encircling serpent, Villa Giustiniani, Vatican Musea

Base of bluish marble formerly in the Villa Giustiniani near Porta Flaminia and now in the Vatican Musea, Cortile della Pigna, with a round pedestal encircled by a bearded crested serpent biting its own tail, probably supporting a statue of Aion.

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Tauroctony from Chrestos

This relief of Mithras killing the bull, signed by a certain Χρῆστος, is on display in the Sala dei Animali of the Vatican Museum.

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Aion relief of Mitreo Fagan

This white marble relief depicting a lion-headed figure from Ostia is now exposed at the Musei Vaticani.

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Tauroctony from the Loggia Scoperta

Currently in the Musei Vaticani, this Tauroctony includes Mithras’s birth restored as Venus anaduomene.

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Aion of Villa Albani

White marble statue of Lion-head god of time, formerly in the Villa Albani, nowadays in the Musei Vaticani.

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Torchbearer restored as Paris

This sculpture, probably of Cautopates, now in the Musei Vaticani, was transformed into Paris.

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Tauroctony sculpture in the Sala dei Animali

This Mithras killing the bull belonged to the sculptor V. Pancetti before being exhibited in the Vatican Museums under Pius VI.

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Tauroctony from the Cortile del Belvedere

The Tauroctony relief of Mithras killing the bull walled in the Cortile of the Belvedered, Vatican City, was found by Fagan near Ostia.

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Mitreo Fagan

The Fagan Mithraeum, also known as the Mithraeum of Tor Boacciana, yielded remarkable sculptures of lion-headed deities, several of which are now preserved in the Vatican Museums.

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Tauroctony relief fragment from the Villa Ludovisi, Rome

A white marble tauroctony relief fragment, in the seventeenth century at the Palazzo Caesiani near the Vatican and later in the Villa Ludovisi in Rome, showing Mithras slaying the bull with dog, serpent and raven, with a cross-legged torchbearer on a base; now lost…

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Head of Mithras in Phrygian cap from Rome

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.

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Marble slab fragment with leaping ox from Rome

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.

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Altars from the Phrygianum of the Vatican by two clarissimi

Both of them were discovered in 1609 in the foundations of the façade of the church of San Pietro, Rome.

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Altar of Alfenius Ceionius Iulianus Kamenius

Marble altar dedicated at the Vatican Phrygianum in Rome by the Mithraic pater Alfenius Ceionius Iulianus Kamenius in 374 CE.

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The Mithras Conspiracy

Followers of a revived version of Mithraism in contemporary Italy threaten to overthrow the government and destroy the Vatican. Rome is in chaos. Earthquakes shake the city. The Pope is in a coma.

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Leontocephalic deity from the Fagan Mithraeum

Marble leontocephalic Aion/Arimanus from the now-lost Fagan Mithraeum at Ostia, dedicated in AD 190 by three members of the local Mithraic priesthood.

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Torso dedicated to Mithras

Marble torso found at Ostia in 1912 between the Decumanus and the Via dei Molini, dedicated to Mithras by a certain Atilius Glyco.

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Altar to Arimanius of the Esquilino

This altar mentioning the god Arimanius was found in 1655 at Porta San Giovanni, on the Esquilino.

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Tauroctony from Albacini

This black marble of Mithras killing the Bull has belonged to the sculptor Carlo Albacini.

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Sabazios with Mithras from Bolsena

This unusual bronze bust of Sabazios features multiple symbolic elements, with Mithras depicted in his characteristic pose of slaying the bull, positioned just below Sabazios’ chest.

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