Monumentum
Mitreo di Marino
The Mithraeum of Marino presents an unusually elongated structure with depictions from the Severian period.
Mitreo di Marino
Unknown
Plan of the Marino Mithraeum
Vermaseren's Mithriaca III
Tauroctony of the Mithraeum of Marino
Xscham
Tauroctony of the Mithraeum of Marino
Xscham
Mithras petrogey
Chaudron
Sol allegiance to Mithras
Chaudron
Alliance between Mithras and Sol
Chaudron
Altar of Mitreo di Marino
Tertullian.org
The New Mithraeum
20 May 2007
Updated on Nov 2024
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 between is quite normal…
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