The torchbearers are at work. Expect the occasional flicker while we tend the grotto.
Mithras emerging from the rock with torch and dagger beside a reclining Oceanus or Saturn.
Several Mithraic scenes, including Mithras with Saturn, Mithras with Sol and Mithras' Ascension, are depicted on this fragment of a relief from Ptuj.
This plaque from Carsulae, in Umbria, refers to the creation of a leonteum erected by the lions at their own expense.
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.
This relief of Mithras as a bullkiller, probably found in Rome, has been part of the Palazzo Mattei collection since at least the end of the 18th century.
Slab marble indicates that Lucius Sempronius has donated a throne to the Mitreo delle Pareti Dipinte.
According to the inscription on it, this altar probably supported a statue of Jupiter.
This altar has been unusually dedicated to both gods Mithras and Mars at Mogontiacum, present-day Mainz.
This head was found at the east end of temple of Mithras in London.
Both objects have a snake winding itself around them.
Mithras birth from the knees upwards emerging from a rock and wearing as usual a Phrygian cap.
These fragments of a cult relief of Mithras were found at the Mithraeum II of Ptuj, Slovenia.
The relief of Sol was found during the construction of Piazza Dante in Rome in 1874.
The relief of Mithras being born from the rock of the Esquiline shows the young god naked, as usual, with a torch and a dagger in his hands.
This black marble of Mithras killing the Bull has belonged to the sculptor Carlo Albacini.
White marble relief, found near Aix "a la Torse dans un enclos ayant appartenu à la famille de Colonia".
This simple relief of Mithras killing the bull without his companions Cautes and Cautopates was found in the so-called Mithraeum of the Esquilino, Rome.
Small triangular slab bearing a Latin inscription referring to Sol Invictus and to a sacred cave, probably dating to the 4th century AD.
