Monumentum
Fresco fragment from Capua
Fresco showing a mystagogus pressing down the shoulders of a kneeling myste, attended by a third figure in Phrygian cap, from the initiation sequence of the Mithraeum of Capua.
The New Mithraeum
20 Dec 2024
Updated on May 2026
TNMM 899 ↔ CIMRM 195
Minto, fig. 14.
The mystagogus, dressed in a white tunica, presses down the shoulders of the kneeling myste so that he seems to fall forward. A third person, dressed in red attire and Phrygian cap, is walking up to him with outstretched hands.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
