Monumentum
Mithraeum between the Quirinal and Viminal, Rome (16th century)
Mithraeum discovered towards the end of the 16th century in a vineyard of Horazio Muti opposite S. Vitale, between the Quirinal and Viminal hills, known from Vacca's report of a sealed room with many terracotta lamp-holders.
The New Mithraeum
Updated on May 2026
Towards the end of the 16th century a Mithraeum was discovered between the Quirinalis and the Viminalis. According to reports from this time it should have been situated in a vineyard of Horazio Muti's opposite S. Vitale's. The following two monuments were found and according to Vacca (Memorie, 116) the first was found 'in una stanza vuota con la porta rimurata ed aveva molti lucernieri di terracotta intorno'.
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