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Mitreo di Piazza della Navicella

Several fragmentary Mithraic remains dedicated by a certain Agatho in the Caelius suggest that a Mithraeum existed in the area.
  • Fragments of a Mithraic relief.

    Fragments of a Mithraic relief.
    CIMRM 

  • Altar with Minerva and a water god

    Altar with Minerva and a water god
    Musei d'Italia 

  • Altar with Minerva and a water god

    Altar with Minerva and a water god
    CIMRM 

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The New Mithraeum
3 Sep 2023

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On the Caelius a Mithraeum seems to have existed on the spot where nowadays the Piazza della Navicella is situated, or in its immediate surroundings (cf. Colini, Storia Celio, 48). Here in May 1555 the two following monuments were discovered, dug up by Girolamo Altieri in area Divae Mariae semper Virginis in Coelio monte cognomento in Domnica (cf. B. Aegius in a note to the Bibliotheca of Apollodorus, f. 1,2.1; .see CIL VI 81).

These monuments were transported to the Palazzo Altieri al Gesù, and were copied here by Pighius (Bibl. Berl. ms. lat. A 61 f. 9) and by Giovantonio Dosio (cf.

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