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The New Mithraeum Database

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Painted tauroctony from Rome

This unusual mural depicting Mithras killing the bull was found near the Colosseum in 1668.

 
Monumentum

Two figures relief from Via Zanardelli

Marble relief, probably found in Rome during the construction of the Palazzo Primoli along the Via Zanardelli.

 
Monumentum

Tauroctony/Repast of Castra Pretoria

This fragment of a double relief shows a tauroctony on one side and the sacred meal, including a serving Corax, on the other.

 
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Tauroctony from Circo Massimo

This marble relief depicting Mithras as a bull slayer was found in the back room of the Mithraeum of the Circus Maximus.

 
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Tauroctony from Antium

This marble relief depicting Mithras killing the bull, found at Porto d’Anzio in 1699 and now lost, is known from a engraving by del Torre.

Syndexios

Aulus Caedicius Priscianus

Eques Romanus and Pater active in S. Stefano Rotondo.

 
Locus

Ad Timavum

 
Monumentum

La grotta del Mitreo

The site was destroyed in the 5th century but some elements, including the benches, can still been seen.

 
Monumentum

Sol and Luna fenster from Rome

Fragments of a marble relief of Sol, which probably served as a fenster.

Syndexios

Agatho

Agatho has dedicated several monuments to Mithras in the Coelian Hill.

 
Monumentum

Relief of Jupiter, Juno and Minerva from the Caelian Mithraeum

This marble relief bears an inscription by Marcus Modius Agatho, who dedicated several monuments to Mithras on the Caelian Hill in Rome.

 
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Mithras pantocrator from the Villa Altieri

This unusual representation of Mithras standing on a bull was kept in the Casino di Villa Altieri sul Monte Esquilino until the 19th century.

Syndexios

Valerian

Roman emperor from 253 to 260, he was taken captive by Shapur I of Persia. He was thus the first emperor to be captured as a prisoner of war.

 
Monumentum

Inscription on the leonteum of Umbria

This plaque from Carsulae, in Umbria, refers to the creation of a leonteum erected by the lions at their own expense.

Syndexios

Titus Lepidius Honorinus

One of the lions of Carsuale who funded the leonteum.

Syndexios

Egnatius Reparatus

Lion and legitimate priest of Carsulae.

 
Monumentum

Inscription of two Gessii from Sentinum

Gessius Castus and Gessius Severus have placed a decorated stutue and left testimony on this inscription below.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 615

Roman stone low-relief depicting Mithras as a bull-slayer, with the upper part of his head missing.

 
Monumentum

Basin from 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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