Monumentum
Well and oblong tombs in the entrance room of San Clemente, Rome
Well with a drainage pipe and two oblong brick-built tombs in the room to the left of the entrance of the Mithraeum of San Clemente, one tomb filled with refuse and a large number of animal bones, particularly swine.
The New Mithraeum
Updated on May 2026
In the room left to the entrance of the Mithraeum, there is a well, from which water runs through a pipe, which penetrates the wall and empties in a square basin. Near this well two oblong tombs of brick-work were found. One of them was filled with all kinds of refuse and contained among other things a great number of animal-bones. Numerous are the bones of swine.
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