Monumentum
Mitreo dell’Esquilino
In a house from the time of Constantine, a Lararium was found with a statue of Isis-Fortuna. The Mithraeum was a door next to it, on a lower room.
![Bull. della comm. arch. comm., 1885, p. 27 et pl. IV-V; cf. Lanciani, Ancient Rome, 1890, p. 192. Fig. 25. [TMFMM]](/album/monumenta/mitreo_esquilino_004.jpg "Bull. della comm. arch. comm., 1885, p. 27 et pl. IV-V; cf. Lanciani, Ancient Rome, 1890, p. 192. Fig. 25. [TMFMM]")
Bull. della comm. arch. comm., 1885, p. 27 et pl. IV-V; cf. Lanciani, Ancient Rome, 1890, p. 192. Fig. 25. [TMFMM]
Franz Cumont. Cf. caption
Tauroctony relief from the Esquillino.
CIMRM
![Bull. della comm. arch. comm., 1885, p. 27 et pl. IV-V; cf. Lanciani, Ancient Rome, 1890, p. 192. Fig. 25. [TMFMM]](/imago/mitreo_esquilino_004.jpg "Bull. della comm. arch. comm., 1885, p. 27 et pl. IV-V; cf. Lanciani, Ancient Rome, 1890, p. 192. Fig. 25. [TMFMM]")
The New Mithraeum
9 Jun 2009
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C. L. Visconti in BCM XIII 1885 27ff and PIs IV-V; Lanciani-Borsari in NSc 188567 154; Lanciani Rome 191 fig.; MMM II 199f No. 15 and fig. 25; Jordan Top. Rom. I (3) 316f.
In a house from the time of Constantine or a little earlier, a Lararium was found with a statue of Isis-Fortuna and smaller statuettes of Sarapis, Jupiter, Hekate, Venus, Mars, Hercules and others. A door next to it opens on a lower room, which served as a Mithraeum. Via two flights of seven and nine
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