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Frescoes of lions at Santa Prisca

Procession of Leones carrying animals, bread, a krater, and other objects in preparation for a feast.
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The New Mithraeum
8 Feb 2022
Updated on May 2026
The procession is continued on the part between the door e and the niche h (Ferrua, Pl. I; see fig. 134). One sees six young men, walking behind each other (Leones), in short hair and beards, dressed in a girded, ochreous tunic, the sleeves of which are decorated with purple stripes. They all carry offerings.1) Only few traces.2) Youth with white bull.3) Youth with in his hands a cock (see fig. 135). Above him a dipinto: N[a]ma ........ Leon[i].4) Stooping man pushing a large ram (see fig. 136). Above: [N]ama.5) Youth carries a krater in both hands (see fig. 137). Above him the dipinto: Nama Niceforo Leoni…

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