Monumentum
Mitreo Fagan
The Mitreo Fagan revealed remarkable sculptures of leon-headed figures now exposed at the Vatican Museum.
Tauroctonia del Mitreo Fagan, Ostia
Leontocéfalo del Mitreo Fagan
The New Mithraeum / Andreu Abuín (CC BY-SA)
Detalle del leontocéfalo del Mitreo Fagan
The New Mithraeum / Andreu Abuín (CC BY-SA)
Relief avec divinité léontocéphale
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The New Mithraeum
19 Jun 2009
Updated on 27 Jan 2022
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In the period between 1794 and 1800 the English painter Robert Fagan discovered a Mithraeum (Reg. III, Is. VIII), of which nowadays only extremely scarce data are known. It is situated between the Tor Boacciana and the Palazzo Imperiale. We know that a natural cave had been imitated, which was entered by a long narrow corridor.
Zoega, Abh., 198; Visconti in Ann. 1st. 1864, 151; Becatti, Mitrei Ostia, 119
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This mithraeum was excavated by the Irish painter Robert Fagan between 1794 and 1802. Today it cannot be seen.
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This mithraeum was excavated by the Irish painter Robert Fagan between 1794 and 1802. Today it cannot be seen.