Monumentum
Zeus Brontoon sanctuary near Villa dei Quintili
Mithras and other oriental gods were worshipped in the shrine of Zeus near the Villa of the Quintilians in Rome.
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The New Mithraeum
29 Aug 2021
Updated on Jan 2025
TNMM 370 ↔ CIMRM 634
Not far from the Villa dei Quintili, between the Via Appia Antica and Nuova, a sanctuary of Zeus Brontoon was discovered in 1929. In it several deities as Hercules, Jupiter with the thunderbolt, Cybele, Astarte, Isis as well as Mithras were adored, as appears from the monuments Nos. 635-639.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
