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.

Relief in plaster, fixed on the wall beside the Mithraic wall-painting (No. 386) in the house of the Nummi Albani on the Quirinal, with traces pointing to a representation of Mithras slaying the bull.

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.

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.

Marble cippus of which only two sides are preserved, with a brief dedication to Cautes on the front face, from the Mithraeum of San Clemente, Rome.

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.

Small cippus found opposite the Theatre at Ostia, with a dedication by brothers Aurelius Crescens and Naima Victor Patri for the restoration of the ruined Mithraeum, third century A.D.

Two marble frieze fragments with incised busts of Sol, Luna, Mars, Jupiter, and Venus, one found in 1890 in the outer porticus of the Theatre and one found in 1938 near the Mithraeum at Ostia.

Small undecorated altar of travertine without inscription, from the Mitreo dei Serpenti at Ostia.

Mosaic-paved floor of the central aisle of the Mitreo delle Sette Porte at Ostia, with a krater flanked by serpent and eagle, standing Jupiter and Saturn, torchbearers at the podia, and planetary gods Mars, Luna, Venus, and Mercury.

Small marble base dedicated by Sex. Annius Merops, honoured Dendrophoros, to the image of Terrae Matris, from the Mitreo degli Animali at Ostia, dated to 142 A.D.

Small marble base with a dedication by T. Annius Lucullus, sevir and quinquennalis, to Martis Dendrophoris Ostiensium, from the Mitreo degli Animali at Ostia, dated to 143 A.D.

Small marble column dedicated by Iunia Zosime, mater, to Virtus Dendrophori from silver weighing two pounds, from the Mitreo degli Animali at Ostia.

Small marble cippus recording a donation by M. Cerellio Hieronymo, pater and sacerdos, on behalf of an antistes who dedicated objects to the god, from the Mitreo degli Animali at Ostia.

Marble head of Helios-Mithras with curly hair and seven holes for fastening rays, from the Mitreo degli Animali at Ostia, Lateran Museum.

Marble relief fragments from the cult niche of the Mitreo della Planta Pedis at Ostia, preserving the bust of Sol in radiate crown, the raven's tail, the bust of Luna in crescent, and parts of the rocky border.

Marble altar bearing a bust of Sol in radiate crown with Cautopates on the right and Cautes on the left, both cross-legged, from the Mitreo delle Pareti Dipinte at Ostia.

Marble slab with a fragmentary Latin inscription, walled into the right-hand side of the cult-niche in the Mitreo delle Pareti Dipinte 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.