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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.

    Figures on right wall, right side.
    The New Mithraeum / Andreu Abuín (CC BY-SA) 

  • Figures on right wall, left side: Nymphus, Miles and Heliodromus

    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

    Mitreo delle pareti dipinte, right wall, left side : Nymphus, Miles and Heliodromus
    The New Mithraeum / Andreu Abuín (CC BY-SA) 

 
The New Mithraeum
15 May 2007
Updated on Dec 2023

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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

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