Monumentum
Two Mithraic monuments from the Dolichenum excavations on the Aventine, Rome
Two Mithraic monuments discovered during the 1935 excavations of the Dolichenum on the Aventine, together with statues of Sol, Luna, Venus, Silvanus and Hercules, now in the Museo Capitolino; the only certain Mithraic finds from a Dolichenum.
The New Mithraeum
Updated on May 2026
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. The finds are in the Museo Capitolino.Colini in BCR 1936, 152f. Nos 18–20; Kan, Jup. Dol., 108 Nos 176–7; Merlat, Rép. Jup. Dol., 169 Nos 187–8; Pietrangeli, Mon. Culti Or., 38 Nos 9–10.These monuments are, as far as we know, the only certain Mithrasmonuments that came out of a Dolichenum. Moreover two inscriptions came to light.
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