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Spoletium

Spoleto is an ancient city in the Italian province of Perugia in east-central Umbria on a foothill of the Apennines.

Mithraic monuments of Spoletium

 

Mitreo di Spoleto

The Mithraeum of Spoleto was found in 1878 by the professor Fabio Gori on behalf of Marquis Filippo Marignoli, owner of the land.

CIMRM 673

 

CIMRM 674

Altar of travertin (H. 1.02) with an inscription, found before the niche near B.

CIMRM 674

 

CIMRM 675

Cone-shaped piece of stone (H. 1.32) with a square hole on two third of its height.

CIMRM 675

 

CIMRM 676

Triangular prisma in cippolino marble (H. 0.77 Br. 0.23).

CIMRM 676

 

CIMRM 677

On the walls of the side-benches originally six figures had been painted (see fig. 192, C).

CIMRM 677

 

CIMRM 678

Statuette in bone (H. 0.10).

CIMRM 678

 

CIMRM 679

Terracotta arm (L. 0.13), found near the cone-shaped stone (No. 675).

CIMRM 679

 

CIMRM 680

An oxidized sacrificial knife.

CIMRM 680

 

CIMRM 681

A medal in the form of a Grecian cross, on which busts of a bearded man and of a woman with veiled head (according to Cumont they might be Sol and Luna).

CIMRM 681

 

CIMRM 682

Earthen lamp with the name of C.

CIMRM 682

 

CIMRM 683

"Ornata di ovolo, reperta nel castello della Fratta presso Montefalco".

CIMRM 683

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