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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
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.

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