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Monumentum

Tuff rock cone from Mithras' rock-birth, Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale

A few pieces of tuff worked as rocks, forming a cone representing the remnants of the rock-birth of Mithras, found around the altar in the Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale at Ostia.
 
The New Mithraeum
Updated on May 2026
Around the altar, described in the preceding No., a few pieces of tuff were found, worked as rocks. They form a cone (remnants of Mithras' rock-birth).

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