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Fragment of a large dolium, on which two small columns, supporting a facade.

Two white marble statues (H. 0.51 and 0.47), found in 1886 "sotto illato setten- trionale del Palatino fra questo colle e la Via S.

Fragments of a marble relief (H. 0.66 Br. 0.955 D. 0.065).

Franz Cumont kindly drew our attention on several ancient fragments, walled in the wall of the flight of steps in the house at the Via Boncompagni 101 (boarding- house Cosmopolita).

Before the niche in the central aisle stands an altar (H. 0.80 Br. 0.60), covered with marble.

Wall-painting in the house of the Nummi Albani's family on the Quirinalis, Via Firenze near the Ministerio della Guerra.

Lanciani, Storia Scavi, III, 200 gives another interesting note about a second Mithraeum, discovered in 1869 near the previous sanctuary in Muti's gardens.

Towards the end of the 16th century a Mithraeum was discovered between the Quirinalis and the Viminalis.

Fragmentum tabulae magnae marmoreae litteris magnis parum bonis saeculi quinti, effossum in monte Quirinali ubi nunc transit via quae dicitur Nazionale.

Marble relief (H. 0.43 Br. 0.85 D. 0.065), of which the left lower corner is missing.

"Parte inferiore di un fusto di candelabro a guisa di tronco di palma uscente da un nascimento di foglie d'acanto; nel plinto in tre lati la inscrizione" (Lan- ciani in BAM 1875,248).

Pars superior parvae columnae marmoreae litteris saeculi secundi exeuntis vel tertii effossa ut videtur in Esquilino.

In the room left to the entrance of the Mithraeum, there is a well, from which water runs through a pipe, which penetrates the wall and empties in a square basin.

A base in the form of an altar (H. 0.185 Br. 0.14) and five small bacchic herms; eleven lamps.

Marble slab (H. 0.16 Br. 0.36).

Marble altar (H. 0.60 (with base 1.40) Br.

1) A small lamp with two wicks, found in front of the niche with the Silvanus' mosaic.

Marble lion's head, which was fastened into a wall because the marble of the backside ends into a flat square (Visconti, 171; MMM 243, 1).

Around the altar, described in the preceding No.

This marble statuette from Ostia depicts Cautopates lowering his torch beside a tapering rock associated with Mithras’ birth from stone.