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Monumentum

Mitreo di Marino

The Mithraeum of Marino presents an unusually elongated structure with depictions from the Severian period.
  • Mitreo di Marino

    Mitreo di Marino
    Unknown 

  • Plan of the Marino Mithraeum

    Plan of the Marino Mithraeum
    Vermaseren's Mithriaca III 

  • Tauroctony of the Mithraeum of Marino

    Tauroctony of the Mithraeum of Marino
    Xscham 

  • Tauroctony of the Mithraeum of Marino

    Tauroctony of the Mithraeum of Marino
    Xscham 

  • Mithras petrogey

    Mithras petrogey
    Chaudron 

  • Sol allegiance to Mithras

    Sol allegiance to Mithras
    Chaudron 

  • Alliance between Mithras and Sol

    Alliance between Mithras and Sol
    Chaudron 

  • Altar of Mitreo di Marino

    Altar of Mitreo di Marino
    Tertullian.org 

 
The New Mithraeum
20 May 2007
Updated on Nov 2024

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Mr V. Zoffoli, enlarging his wine-cellars near the railway-station in 1963, discovered a grotto dedicated to the mighty and secret god. The plan of the Mithraeum is the usual one. Behind a wide entrance hall (L. 13.25 m, W. 8.00 m) we find the sanctuary itself, which is exceptionally long and much narrower (W. 3.10 m) than the ante-room. The longest Mithraeum of the Roman Imperium known hitherto was that at Sarmizegetusa [TNMM 57] is in Dacia (L. 26 m), the one at Marino however is 29.20 metres long, which is twice the normal length. The arrangement of benches on either side with a nave in

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Fresco Tauroctony of Mitreo di Marino

The importance of the Mithraeum of Marino lies in its frescoes, the most significant of which is that of Mithras slaying the bull, surrounded by mythological scenes.

Altar in Mitreo di Marino

The monument is engraved with an inscription by Cresces, the donor.

 
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