Monumentum
Under-layer wall-paintings with Mithraic grade procession and dipinti, S. Prisca Mithraeum, Rome
Under-layer wall-paintings in the S. Prisca Mithraeum on the Aventine showing a further procession of Mithraic initiates in different colours, with partially legible dipinti including liturgical verses and acclamations.
The New Mithraeum
Updated on May 2026
TNMM 1036 ↔ CIMRM 484
On the under layer remnants of other painted persons are visible. On the first layer of wall I2 another procession of the various Mithraic grades has been represented. The leones have been painted in other colours and are walking without animals. On the left wall there is a new, long procession of other leones, but the representation of the Mithraic meal has been omitted.
On wall I2 between e and I1; above 5 and 6: Nama Leonibus novis et multis annis. / Above 5: [N]ama. / Above 4: Nama saev...... Leoni.
Above 3 and 2, Ferrua reads: Nama..... / Leoni. / ...... icit....ucta / reddite cantu.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
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