Monumentum
Marble altar base with mythological reliefs from the Angera Mithraeum
A white marble altar base from the Mithraeum at Angera, decorated with palmettes, eagles carrying a festoon and rosettes on the front, dolphins on the reverse, and on each side mythological scenes of Jupiter and Neptune combatting Giants with snake-feet.
The New Mithraeum
Updated on May 2026
TNMM 1195 ↔ CIMRM 720
White marble base of an altar, kept in the Chapel of the castle on the hill at Angera.
The top is decorated with a line of palmettes. On the front two eagles carry a festoon in their beaks; between two rosettes is inscription No. 721. The reverse shows the same motif but the eagles are replaced by two dolphins.
On the left side a naked bearded figure (Jupiter) with a thunderbolt grasps a kneeling figure whose feet end in snake-tails. On the right side a similar scene with a figure with a trident (Neptune?) against a bearded Giant lifting a piece of rock.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
