Monumentum
Frescoes with standing figures of Mitreo delle Pareti Dipinte
The frescoes depict several figures dressed in different garments associated with the Mithraic degrees.
Figures on right wall, right side.
The New Mithraeum / Andreu Abuín (CC BY-SA)
Figures on right wall, left side: Nymphus, Miles and Heliodromus
The New Mithraeum / Andreu Abuín (CC BY-SA)
Mitreo delle pareti dipinte, right wall, left side : Nymphus, Miles and Heliodromus
The New Mithraeum / Andreu Abuín (CC BY-SA)
CIMRM 268
Vermaseren's Corpus
CIMRM 268-2
Vermaseren's Corpus
The New Mithraeum
15 May 2007
Updated on Jan 2025
On the back wall of the sanctuary there must have been a large painting, probably the scene of Mithras as a bullkiller, because many traces in blue and brown (the grotto) and red are visible. The right wall of the inner part of the sanctuary is divided in three parts:1) In the left section a standing woman, frontal (Becatti, Pl. XII, 1), in short hair dress, dressed in a violet tunica and yellow himation. In her right outstretched hand she holds a mirror; with her left hand she arranges a leaf-crown (Venus-Nymphus). The woman is standing on the greenish soil and on her right side there is a …
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