The New Mithraeum Database

Interview to one of the workers who participated in the discovery of the temple of Mithras of Marino, Rome.

professor of Archaeology at Sapienza (Rome)

Archaeological evidence shows that the area around Rome has been inhabited since around 14,000 years ago. Excavations support the theory that Rome grew from pastoral settlements on the Palatine Hill, which was built over the area of the Roman Forum.

Mithras slaying the bull appears as the sign of Capricorn in a zodiacal sequence on the Pórtico del Cordero of the Abbey de Santo Domingo de Silos, Burgos, Spain.

TNMM763

The vessel to burn incense from the Mithraeum of Dieburg is similar to those found in other Roman cities of Germany.

TNMM409 – CIMRM 1269

This intaglio portrays Mithra slaying the bull on one side, and a lion with a bee, around seven stars, and inscription, on the other.

TNMM546 – CIMRM 2354

This monument with an inscription by two individuals was found in the first mithraeum of Cologne, Germany.

TNMM726 – CIMRM 1021

This is one of the two torchbearers, probably Cautes, transformed into Paris, now in the British Museum.

TNMM132 – CIMRM 506

The Mithraeum or Angers contained numerous objects, including coins, oil lamps and a ceramic vessel engraved with a votive inscription to the invincible god Mithras.

TNMM199

This fragmentary relief depicts Mithras killing the bull in the usual manner, remarkably dressed in oriental attire.

TNMM539 – CIMRM 607