The New Mithraeum
19 Aug 2021
Updated on May 2026
Fresco showing a scene of initiation into the mysteries of Mithras in the Mithraeum of Santa Maria Capua Vetere.
The nude myste, red painted, with his hands tied behind his back, kneels down on one knee. A sword by his side. The figure of the mystagogus behind him, dressed in white, is indistinct. He lays his hand on the head of the myste. Further down the outlines of a third person.
Minto, 370 and fig. 13; Turchi, RRA, Tav. XXIV, 2. See fig. 59.
The nude myste, red painted, with his hands tied behind his back, kneels down on one knee. A sword by his side. The figure of the mystagogus behind him, dressed in white, is indistinct. He lays his hand on the head of the myste. Further down the outlines of a third person.
Minto, 370 and fig. 13; Turchi, RRA, Tav. XXIV, 2. See fig. 59.
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