Fresco of Mithras

Fresco in an arched niche (H. 1.80 Br. 1.10) above the right bench. Ghislanzoni, 322; Ripostelli, fig. 79; Parpaglio, 58f and fig. XV. See fig. 127. Mithras, dressed in purple tunic with long sleeves and anaxyrides, wears on his head the Phrygian cap, of which only the point has been preserved. His face, on which traces of red paint, is badly damaged. In his l.h. a light-blue globe. The other hand is stretched out over a kind of base (small altar?), above which a greenish undefinable object is visible. In his neck a small hole. Judging from traces next to his shoulders, the whole niche was painted in red.