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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
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.

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