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Monumentum

Mosaic of Sette Sfere

The floor mosaic of the Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres, which gives its name to the temple, depicts a dagger.
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The New Mithraeum
18 Sept 2023
In the white-black mosaic-floor of the central aisle near the entrance there is a dagger and behind it follow seven half circles (seven spheres of the planets).

MMM II 245; Paschetto, Ostia, fig. 121; cl. Cumont in CRAI 1945,415; see fig. 72.

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