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Monumentum

Eros and Psyche

The Mithraeum of Santa Maria Capua Vetere includes a marble relief depicting a child Eros guiding Psyche through the dark.
  • Eros leading Psyche from the Mitreo di Capua Vetere.

    Eros leading Psyche from the Mitreo di Capua Vetere.
    Mihr* 

  • Eros leading Psyche from the Mitreo di Capua Vetere.

    Eros leading Psyche from the Mitreo di Capua Vetere.
    The New Mithraeum / Andreu Abuín (CC BY-SA) 

  • CIMRM 186

    CIMRM 186
    Vermaseren's Corpus 

 
The New Mithraeum
18 Jul 2009
Updated on Sep 2024

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White marble relief (H. 0.32 Br. 0.39) in a recess in the Southern wall above the water-basin of the podium.
Reitzenstein in ARW 1930 42ff and fig. 15; Minto 367 and fig. 9. See fig. 56.
The nude winged child Amor seizes the arm of the bigger Psyche, also winged, to lead her away in the light of his torch. The girl lifts a part of her diaphanous dress. The whole is set in a red frame.



White marble relief inserted above a water basin in the podium’s Mithraeum. The relief which was carefully framed with a red border, represents a nude winged child Eros with a flaming torch in his

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