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Monumentum

Mitreo del Campidoglio «lo perso»

This temple of Mithras on the north side of the Capitoline Hill in Rome no longer exists.
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The New Mithraeum
20 May 2007
Updated on Jan 2022
In the Northern part of the Capitoline-hill, near the present Church of S. Maria d'Aracoeli, there was at the time of Cyriacus from Ancona (born 1391) a Mithraeum called 'lo perso'. Smetius visited it in 1550, but when Montfaucon arrived in Rome (1594) it had already been destroyed for some time. A manuscript from about 1600, which belonged to Lanciani and now lies in the Library of the Italian archaeological Institute (No. 124/227 ed. Mariani) gives further details about this sanctuary.

Colini in BCR 1938, 259 considers it possible to ascribe all data and finds to one Mithraeum (see the three following Nos…

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