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The New Mithraeum Database

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Fragment of a Tauroctony from Ostia

This elliptical terracotta fragment from Ostia depicts Mithras as a bullkiller.

 
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Cautes and Cautopates of Ostia found in 1939

This marble of Cautes was found together with his partner Cautopates in Ostia in 1939.

 
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Mosaic of Silvanus from Ostia

This unusual mosaic representation of the god Silvanus was found in the Mithreaum of the so-called Imperial Palace in Ostia.

 
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Mithraic brooch of Ostia

In the Mithraic bronze brooch found in Ostia, Cautes and Cautopates have been replaced by a nightingale and a cock.

 
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Mitreo della domus dei capitelli

Archaeologists discovered the 20th temple dedicated to Mithras in Ostia during the restoration of the domus del capitello di stucco in 2022.

 
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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 Glycol.

 
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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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Cippus of Antoninus from Ostia

This small white marble cippus bears an inscription of a certain Pater Antoninus to Cautes.

 
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Inscription of Hermes to Silvanus

This inscription, found in the Mitreo della Planta Pedis, among some other monuments in Ostia, suggests a link between Mithras and Silvanus.

 
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Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale

A mosaic of Silvanus, dated to the time of Commodus, was found in a niche in a nearby room of the Mithraeum in the Imperial Palace at Ostia.

 
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Bronze inscription from Aldobrandini

This plaque, now on display in the British Museum, may have come from the Aldobrandini Mithraeum in Ostia.

 
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Basin of Mitreo della Planta Pedis

This marble basin found in the Mithraeum of the Footprint bears an inscription of a certain Umbilius Criton, associated with a monumental tauroctonic sculpture also found in Ostia.

 
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Mitreo della Planta Pedis

The floor of the central aisle of the Mithraeum of the Footprint in Ostia has a mosaic depicting a snake and a footprint.

 
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Inscriptions of Caseggiato di Diana

This marble slab found near the Casa de Diana in Ostia bears two inscription with several names of brothers of a same community

 
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CIMRM 298

Graffito, inscribed by the possessor of a simple dark room, on a wall of the Caseggiato del Sole (Reg. V, Is. VI, I); this house is situated annex to the Mitreo dei Serpenti (Becatti, MitreiOstia, 125ff,fig.24andpl. XXXVIII,4) (L.H.0.02-0.04).

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Lucius Agrius Fructosus

Patron of the Ostian college of stuppatores

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Quintus Petronius Felix Marsus

Syndexios in Ostia, his name Marsus suggests that he was a snake-charmer.

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Gaius Caelius Ermero

Antistes of several mithraea in Ostia.

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Sextus Pompeius Maximus

Pater Patrum of Ostia, he officiated at the Mitreo Aldobrandini where he is mentioned in a couple of inscriptions.

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