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Monumentum

CIMRM 386

Wall-painting in the house of the Nummi Albani's family on the Quirinalis, Via Firenze near the Ministerio della Guerra.
 
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TNMM 979 ↔ CIMRM 386

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Wall-painting in the house of the Nummi Albani's family on the Quirinalis, Via Firenze near the Ministerio della Guerra. Capannari in BCM XIV, 1886, 17ff; MMM II 197 No. 11; Maria Santangelo, Quirinale, 153. In one of the underground rooms of the house, which was discovered 1886, there is a wall-painting on which Mithras tauroctone is represented in fresco. The god wears a red cap und tunic, whereas the torchbearers respectively wear a yellow or orange tunic and cap, but an anaxyrides which is green (r. torchbearer) or brown (L one). The bull is greyish-brown. The dog is grey, the scorpion is yellow. Further data are unknown.

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