Mitreo delle Sette Sfere
General view of the Mitraeum of the Seven Spheres
The New Mithraeum / Andreu Abuín (CC BY-SA)
Corridor of the Mitraeum of the Seven Sphere
The New Mithraeum / Andreu Abuín (CC BY-SA)
Detail of the corridor, Mitraeum of the Seven Spheres
The New Mithraeum / Andreu Abuín (CC BY-SA)
Tauroctonia del Mitreo delle Sette Sfere, Ostia
Musei Vaticani
Tauroctonia del Mitreo delle Sette Sfere, Ostia
Dagger mosaic at the entrance of the Mitreo delle Sette Sfere
Warburg Institute
Cautes mosaic in Mitreo delle Sette Sfere
The New Mithraeum / Andreu Abuín (CC BY-NC-SA)
Sketch of the figures on the Sette Sfere mosaic.
Paschetto
Sketch of the astronomical signs.
Gordon 1976
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Mithraeum, discovered by Lanciani in 1885-1886 (Reg. II, Is. VII, 6). Second half of the second cent. A.D.
The Mithraeum was built in a rectangular room on the Western side of the Domus of Apuleius with which it communicates through a corridor. It is, however, uncertain whether already in antiquity the house communicated with the sanctuary. Entering the sanctuary (L. 11.20 Br. 4.95), one finds the usual division of central aisle (Br. 1.70), leading to the dais, and two sloping side-benches (Br. 1.50-1.65 H. 0.75-0.60), the fronts and the projecting edges of which bear
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