The New Mithraeum Database

The person who commanded the sculpture may have been M. Umbilius Criton, documented in the Mitreo della Planta Pedis.

TNMM108 – CIMRM 230, 231

The Mithraeum was found in one of the rooms of the Horrea built in the years 120 - 125 AD. The installation of the shrine may have taken place in the first half of the third century.

TNMM10 – CIMRM 300, 301

The Mithraeum of Lucretius Menander was installed in the early 3rd century in an alley to the east of a Hadrianic building named after the solar god temple.

TNMM6 – CIMRM 224

The brick altar of the Mithraeum Menander was covered with marble slabs bearing a crescent and an inscription.

TNMM534 – CIMRM 225

Dedicated the main altar found in the Mithraeum of Menender.

Pater of the Mithraeum of Ostia which bears his name.

The lion-headed god is standing on a globe encicled by two crossed bands on which five pearls.

TNMM322 – CIMRM 543

This Mithraic temple, aka Mithraeum of the Olympii, was discovered in the 15th century in Rome, although traces have been lost except for a few monuments with remarkable inscriptions.

TNMM446 – CIMRM 399

The Mithraeum in the Chapel of the Three Naves was not linked to the cult of Mithras until recently because of a mosaic showing a pig, in the belief that it was an animal unfit for consumption in a temple of Eastern origin.

TNMM533

The relief marble of Mithras sacrifying the bull, exposed on the Hermitage Museum comes from Rome.

TNMM308 – CIMRM 603, 604