Sabazeo

TNMM 10 ↔ CIMRM 300 & 301

Mithraeum (Reg. V, Is. XII, 3) excavated in 1909 ('Sabazeo'). Probably first quarter of the third cent. A.D.

Vaglieri in NSc 1909, 20f; Becatti, Mitrei Ostia, 113ff and fig. 23, PI. XXVI, 2.

The sanctuary (L. 13.00 Br. 5.60) was constructed in a part of Horrea and is divided in a central aisle (Br. 2.07) and two side-benches (Br. 1.80 H. 0.40) sloping towards the walls. Only the left one is as long as the sanctuary itself.

The entrance is in the right wall (Br. 1.00); here a corridor leads into the central aisle, which is partly decorated with a mosaic pavement (see below). In the floor, about in the middle of the Mithraeum is a ritual basin (diam. 0.35), covered by an oscillum (Satyr and Maenad). The central aisle leads towards the cultniche, of which only three steps are preserved. Near the entrance thele must have been a base (Vaglieri).

CIMRM 301

Inscription in the mosaic part of the central aisle.
In a tabula ansata:

CIL XIV 4297

Becatti, 114.
Fructus / suis in/pendis / consum/mavit.