Monumentum
Initiation scene from Capua Vetere
Fresco depicting an initiation scene from the Mithraeum of Capua Vetere.
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The New Mithraeum
26 Dec 2024
Updated on May 2026
TNMM 898 ↔ CIMRM 194
The mystagogus, dressed in a white tunica with red stripes, stands with one foot on the calfs of the kneeling myste, who holds his hands folded under his chin. Another person, dressed in a red cloak, walking up to him, holds in hand a red stick (sword?) towards a round object (loaf?), which lies on the ground in front of the myste.
References
Minto, fig. 15; Leipoldt, fig. 44. See fig. 61.
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
