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Monumentum

Mitreo di Vulci

The Mithraeum of Vulci is remarkable because of his high benches and the arches below them.
  • General view of the Vulci Mithraeum

    General view of the Vulci Mithraeum
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  • General view of the Vulci Mithraeum

    General view of the Vulci Mithraeum 

  • General view of the Vulci Mithraeum

    General view of the Vulci Mithraeum
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The New Mithraeum
20 May 2007
Updated on Jan 2022

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The Mithraeum of Vulci was discovered in 1975, during the excavations of a Roman Villa. The elevation of the lateral benches, more than a meter, is quite unusual as remarked Roger Beck.

On each side a row of six of these arches is flanked by two small square niches. A third niches is set in the centre of the SW bench, with three arches to each side and a smaller arch in the corresponding position on the opposite bench.

Rightly, Sgubini Moretti compares this structural feature with the mosaics of Sette Porte and Sette Sfere at Ostia as a further — and most significant — example of