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Mithraic texts from Santa Prisca

Preliminary readings of the painted Mithraic texts later revised after additional research and restoration.
 
The New Mithraeum
6 Apr 2026
Updated on May 2026
On the first layer of the left wall there are three lines in the section above door b’, on both sides of which are two series of respectively three and two other lines. On this side however, the paintings have suffered very much from the Christians who damaged them with axes.

The first two lines above I are yet covered by the upper stratum, but they must have got lost for the greater part.

Above the second Leo one can read already:
en ... bsum[p]si
ans fec

Above entrance b’:Dule. a sicut fe .. na itu Mithra gubernat
P ...... renatus . diit cibum atque cremium
..... i .. ier. . tua . dicatis tu. po…

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