Mitreo del Circo Massimo

When in 1932 a wing of the Palazzo dei Musei di Roma was rebuilt into a warehouse for the Teatro dell’Opera, considerable remnants of a Roman public building were discovered, a part of which was made to a Mithraeum in the second half of the third century. The finds are kept on the spot or in the Antiquario.
By a corridor one enters the sanctuary, which has been constructed in a number of adjacent rooms. First of all one reaches the paved rooms C and F, which by a door are connected with the rooms A and B. Next to C, separated from it by a wall, and connected by a door, lies room E, which served as an apparatorium…