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
TNMM 923 ↔ CIMRM 260
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).
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
