This site uses cookies to offer you a better browsing experience.
Find out more on how we use cookies in our privacy policy.

 
Enter
Monumentum

Mitreo Fagan

The Mitreo Fagan revealed remarkable sculptures of leon-headed figures now exposed at the Vatican Museum.
  • Tauroctonia del Mitreo Fagan, Ostia

    Tauroctonia del Mitreo Fagan, Ostia 

  • Leontocéfalo del Mitreo Fagan

    Leontocéfalo del Mitreo Fagan
    The New Mithraeum / Andreu Abuín (CC BY-SA) 

  • Detalle del leontocéfalo del Mitreo Fagan

    Detalle del leontocéfalo del Mitreo Fagan
    The New Mithraeum / Andreu Abuín (CC BY-SA) 

  • Lion-headed mithraic god relief from Mitreo Fagan

    Lion-headed mithraic god relief from Mitreo Fagan
    DR 

 
The New Mithraeum
19 Jun 2009
Updated on Jan 2022

The full article is reserved for our members.

Log in or create a free account to access the entire site.

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

———

This mithraeum was excavated by the Irish painter Robert Fagan between 1794 and 1802. Today it cannot be seen. It must be somewhere between the Palazzo Imperiale and the

…

Related monuments

Tauroctony marble from Mitreo Fagan

This sculpture of Mithras killing the bull was dedicated to the ’incomprehensible god’ by a certain priest called Gaius Valerius Heracles.

Aion of Mitreo Fagan

The marble Aion from the lost Mithraeum Fagan, Ostia, now presides the entrance to the Vatican Library.

Aion relief of Mitreo Fagan

This white marble relief depicting a lion-headed figure from Ostia is now exposed at the Musei Vaticani.