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Monumentum

Mithraic shrine debris from Rome

Group of Mithraic and other cult remains possibly originating from several neighbouring sanctuaries destroyed or abandoned in Late Antiquity.
 
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026

TNMM 2045 ↔ CIMRM 634-639

A. D. Nock in Gnomon XXX, 1958, 293f justly remarks that in the inscription 'after omne (i.e. omni) there probably stood apparatu as in No. 747, and speleum, may, as there, have stood before cum. This would mean the construction of a Mithraeum. We must therefore incline to the view that this find represents the debris from various shrines, very likely close to one another, like a group of foreign shrines on Delos-perhaps even within a single enclosure. It may be, as Becatti suggests, that these had been deliberately despoiled, as could be the fate of Mithraea; it may again be that, when the Villa passed into the possession of Christian emperors the shrines had fallen into decay.'

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