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Marble lion's head from the Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale

Marble lion's head fastened into a wall, its flat square back indicating it was set into masonry, from the Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale at Ostia.
 
The New Mithraeum
Updated on May 2026
Marble lion's head, which was fastened into a wall because the marble of the backside ends into a flat square (Visconti, 171; MMM 243, 1).

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