Monumentum
Wall-painting of initiation scene on the left bench column, Palazzo Barberini Mithraeum, Rome
Wall-painting on the last column of the left bench in the Palazzo Barberini Mithraeum, showing a standing person pressing his left hand to his breast and extending his right hand towards a kneeling person whose head is covered with ivy.
The New Mithraeum
Updated on May 2026
TNMM 983 ↔ CIMRM 393
On the last column of the left bench, a standing person has been painted in red, pressing his l.h. against his breast and stretching out his r.h. towards an apparently kneeling person, whose head is covered with ivy. The latter stretches both hands (Annibaldi, fig. 4).
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
