Monumentum
Marble statuette of the Good Shepherd from San Clemente, Rome
Marble statuette representing a bearded person as the Good Shepherd, found in the Dominicum Clementis opposite the Mithraeum of San Clemente; it definitively represents S. Peter, not a Mithraic father of the mysteries.
The New Mithraeum
Updated on May 2026
TNMM 959 ↔ CIMRM 345
In the irregular room opposite the sanctuary, the so-called Dominicum Clementis, a marble statuette representing a bearded person as the good Shepherd was found. It definitely is a representation of S. Peter and not of a father of the mysteries, as Nolan thought.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
