Mitreo d’Ottaviano Zeno

The so-called Mithraeum of Ottaviano Zeno is a reconstructed mithraic sanctuary associated with a dispersed group of reliefs discovered on the Caelian Hill in Rome, probably near the modern church of Santa Maria in Domnica. Although no intact underground structure survives, the concentration of related mithraic sculptures and inscriptions found in the area strongly suggests the existence of an important urban mithraeum active during the 2nd and early 3rd centuries CE. The sanctuary is generally connected with the famous “Zeno relief”, formerly owned by the Venetian collector Ottaviano…