The New Mithraeum
12 Jan 2022
Updated on May 2026
Square marble relief (H. 0.29 Br. 0.29 D. 0.03). Palazzo Conservatori, Inv. No. 2327. Probably 4th cent. A.D.
Mithras’ birth from the rock; visible from the knees. The youthful god is in Phrygian cap; a knife in his upraised r.h.; a flaming torch in the I.h.
Visconti, l.c., 211 and PI. XXI, 2; Lanciani, o.c., 167; Maionica, Felsengeburt, No. IV; MMM II 203 No. 18 and fig. 28; Roscher, Myth. Lex., s.v. Mithras, 3046 and fig. 4; RRRIII, 1956; Gressmann, Or. Rel., 154 fig. 58. See fig. 100.
Mithras’ birth from the rock; visible from the knees. The youthful god is in Phrygian cap; a knife in his upraised r.h.; a flaming torch in the I.h.
Visconti, l.c., 211 and PI. XXI, 2; Lanciani, o.c., 167; Maionica, Felsengeburt, No. IV; MMM II 203 No. 18 and fig. 28; Roscher, Myth. Lex., s.v. Mithras, 3046 and fig. 4; RRRIII, 1956; Gressmann, Or. Rel., 154 fig. 58. See fig. 100.
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