The New Mithraeum Database

Two inscriptions (a and b) from the Aventine Dolichenum sanctuary relating to Sol Invictus Mithras, one a fragmentary dedication and the other mentioning a signum and providentissimus.

Two Mithraic monuments discovered during the 1935 excavations of the Dolichenum on the Aventine, together with statues of Sol, Luna, Venus, Silvanus and Hercules, now in the Museo Capitolino; the only certain Mithraic finds from a Dolichenum.

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.

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.

Miscellaneous small finds from the Mithraeum at the Palazzo dei Musei, Rome, including animal bones, tusks of boars, marble pieces, bronze objects, glass fragments, and a tile with a Domitianic inscription.

Base of a Venus statuette preserving only the feet and a jug with a cloth on the right side, from the Mithraeum at the Palazzo dei Musei, Rome; a second broken base may also have belonged to a Venus statuette.

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.

Pair of white marble statues — Cautes with upraised torch and a cock, and Cautopates with a bird at his feet — found in 1886 on the north side of the Palatine between the hill and Via S. Teodoro, with traces of red painting on base and sides.

Large base found behind the Palazzo Senense inscribed with a brief dedication to Sol Mithras, CIL VI 713.

Marble statue of the naked Mithras emerging from the rock, holding a dagger in his right hand and a torch in his left, visible to the knees, from the Mithraeum of S. Lorenzo in Damaso; the head is lost.

Marble statue of Cautopates in Eastern attire, cross-legged, leaning against a trunk and rocky stone with a cock beside his left foot, from the Mithraeum of S. Lorenzo in Damaso; the greater part of his arms and torch are lost.

Fragment of a marble tabula ansata with a palm-branch in the ansa and a partially legible inscription mentioning Sol, from the Mithraeum of S. Lorenzo in Damaso, probably dated to 253 A.D.

Marble tablet recording the dedication of a shrine to the Invictus God by L. Aurelius Severus, under the presidency of pater Domitius Marcellinus, dated to 181 A.D.

Inscription CIL VI 752 recording the transmission of the leontica grade by Nonius Victor Olympius and Aurelius Victor Augentius at the Mithraeum of Piazza S. Silvestro in Capite, dated to 359 and 358 A.D.

Inscription CIL VI 750 recording the transmission of the Persica and Heliaca grades by Nonius Victor Olympius and Aurelius Victor Augentius at the Mithraeum of Piazza S. Silvestro in Capite, dated to 358 A.D.

White marble statue of a standing cross-legged torchbearer in Eastern attire with traces of red painting, found in the Castra Pretoria in 1882; head, arms, and feet are lost and the monument could not subsequently be traced.

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.

Marble altar found near S. Lorenzo in Piscibus in 1949, dedicated to the Great Mother, Attis, and the Invincible Mithras by Sextus Rusticus, vir clarissimus, pater patrum, proconsul of Africa between 371 and 373 A.D.

Marble statuette representing a bearded person as the Good Shepherd, found in the Dominicum Clementis opposite the Mithraeum of San Clemente; it definitively represents S. Peter, not a Mithraic father of the mysteries.

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