Mithraic monuments of Portus
Album of Portus
This marble tablet found at Portus Ostiae mentions a pater, a lion donor and a series of male names, probably from a Mithraic community.
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In the irregular room opposite the sanctuary, the so-called Dominicum Clementis, a marble statuette, representing a bearded person as the good Shepherd was found.
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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.
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Duo fragmenta marmorea facile eiusdem lapidis litteris detritis in ecclesiae pavimento inserta.
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Pars superior parvae columnae marmoreae litteris saeculi secundi exeuntis vel tertii effossa ut videtur in Esquilino.
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"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).
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CIMRM 372
Marble relief (H. 0.43 Br. 0.85 D. 0.065), of which the left lower corner is missing.
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CIMRM 375
A low-relief of Mithras tauroctone was found in 1928 by the Comtesse de Robi- lant in a cellar, full of the debris of the Palazzo del Grillo behind the Forum of Augustus.
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Fragmentum tabulae magnae marmoreae litteris magnis parum bonis saeculi quinti, effossum in monte Quirinali ubi nunc transit via quae dicitur Nazionale.
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Basis parva semirotunda reperta in monte Quirinali in via Mazzarini in Mithraeo exiguo.
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Towards the end of the 16th century a Mithraeum was discovered between the Quirinalis and the Viminalis.
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Lanciani, Storia Scavi, III, 200 gives another interesting note about a second Mithraeum, discovered in 1869 near the previous sanctuary in Muti's gardens.
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Wall-painting in the house of the Nummi Albani's family on the Quirinalis, Via Firenze near the Ministerio della Guerra.
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Before the niche in the central aisle stands an altar (H. 0.80 Br. 0.60), covered with marble.
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On the last column of the left bench, a standing person has been painted in red, pressing his l.
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On the last column but one, a standing person in short tunic with a wreath of ivy.
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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).
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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.
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Lower part of a statuette (H. 0.153 Br. 0.08) of Minerva, dressed in a long chiton.
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Base of a Venus-statuette (H. 0.135 Br. 0.075); only the feet and on the right side a jug, upon which a cloth, have been preserved.
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Further other small finds were made such as bones of animals, tusks of boars, pieces of marble, among which one with the outlines of a fish, bronze objects such as e.
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A small lamp (diam. 0.11) on which a flying Victoria has been represented, holding a crown in the r.
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Fragment of a Greek marble relief (H. 0.35 Br. 0.30 D. 0.12), found in the Via Borgo Vecchio.
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Pieces of roughly worked stone may point at a representation of Mithras' rock- birth.
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CIMRM 467
During the excavations of the Dolichenum on the Aventine in 1935, two Mithraic monuments have been discovered and besides statues of Sol, Luna, Venus, Silvanus and Hercules.
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Two small fragments of a relief with the representation of Mithras tauroctone and the two torchbearers in a grotto.
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Small marble base, which seems to have been found in the same sanctuary during former excavations.
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On the first layer of the left wall there are three lines in the section above door b' on both sides of which are two series of respectively three and two other lines.
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A marble mortar (H. 0.125) ; pieces of glass; a great number of plates and dishes; moreover lamps, dating from the first four centuries.
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Strongly oxydised leaden plate (H. 0.55 Br. 0.43 D. 0.003), on which Sol is represented with seven rays round his curly head.
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Inscription on a marble slab (H. 0.21 Br. 0.67 D. 0.02), walled in the ledge of bench p.
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In the lower strata of sand of the Mithraeum, two coins of Commodus and one of his wife, Crispina, two of Diocletianus and one of Galerius, one of Constans and two of Valens were found.
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The Museum of the Therms has also a marble statue of a cross-legged torch- bearer (H. 0.58) in Eastern attire, cross-legged (Inv. No. 283).
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Altar with a Greek dedication to the Magna Mater and Attis (CIG 6012b; Kaibel, lSI 1018) and a Latin inscription.
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White marble relief (H. 0.50 Br. about 0.60), walled in the back-wall of the Casino of the Villa Giustiniani (nowadays Massimi-P. Lancelotti).
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Relief of bluish marble (H. about 0.66 Br. 1.02), walled in the back-wall of the Casino of the Villa Doria Pamphili.
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Fragment of a small white marble relief (H. 0.26 Br. 0.28), walled in the inner court of the Palazzo Rondinini, now Palazzo Sanseverino, Corso No.
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Fragment (H. 0.28 Br. 0.20 D. 0.05) of a small white marble relief (H. about 0.35 Br. about 0.50).
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Small bronze figure (H. 0.11), which served as a handle of a patera (Zoega) or a knife (Lajard).
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Marble base "von zwei Palmen ins Gevierte, wenig mehr als einen halben Palme dick".
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In 1946 Franz Cumont gave me the following information: "Voici deux monu- ments qui ont passe dans Ie commerce et dont Ie possesseur actuel est inconnu: Froehner, Collection Hoffmann Antiquites No.
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Two statues, which were formerly in the Villa del Grande near the Porta Maggiore.
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About the next two monuments, no further data are known (cf. MMM II 485 No. 78c, bis): 1) In Palazzo Barberini (Zoega, Abh., 148 No.8).
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In 1946 Franz Cumont wrote me: "D'apres une notice que m'a communique Richard Wiinsch en 1910, Ie Lyceum Hosianum de Braunsberg en Prusse orientale possede (ou possMait car il n'existe peut-etre plus) un basrelief de Mithra, acquis pres de Rome".
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White marble statue (H. 0.43 Br. 0.29), found in 1925 "sulla via Aurelia intorno al milliare undecimo nella tenuta denominata il Bottacio" (Lorium).
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It is not excluded, that a torso of a man (H. 0.24) of marble from Luna represents a torchbearer.
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Fragment of a white marble relief (H. 0.40 Br. 0.36 -0.10 D. 0.037-0.06), found together with the following No.
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Franz Cumont drew our attention to a statue, found along the Via Cassia (Clodia) about six kilometers from Rome.
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Marble statue (H. 0.65), found at Torrita near Nazzano in the beginning of the 19th century.
CIMRM 645
Inscriptions from Portus
Album of Portus
Tr . . . / Pet . . . / Pa . . . / Tr . . . / E x . . . / lu . . . / Me . . . / T . . . / Ro . . . / Sa . . . / Se . . . / Ap . . . /
Leo fe[cit].
References
- Bricault; Roy (2021) Les cultes de Mithra dans l'Empire Romain
- Vittoria Canciani (2022) Archaeological Evidence of the Cult of Mithras in Ancient Italy
