Monumentum
Frescoes with standing figures of Mitreo delle Pareti Dipinte
The painting depicts various mythical Mithraic figures as well as characters related to the degrees.
PublishedThe New Mithraeum
15 May 2007
Updated on 22 Jan 2022
Figures on right wall, right side.
The New Mithraeum / Andreu Abuín (CC BY-SA)
Figures on right wall, left side: Nymphus, Miles and Heliodromus
The New Mithraeum / Andreu Abuín (CC BY-SA)
Figures on right wall, left side: Nymphus, Miles and Heliodromus
The New Mithraeum / Andreu Abuín (CC BY-SA)
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On the back wall of the sanctuary there must have been a large painting, probably the scene of Mithras as a bullkiller, because many traces in blue and brown (the grotto) and red are visible. The right wall of the inner part of the sanctuary is divided in three parts:
1) In the left section a standing woman, frontal (Becatti, Pl. XII, 1), in short hair dress, dressed in a violet tunica and yellow himation. In her right outstretched hand she holds a mirror; with her left hand she arranges a leaf-crown (Venus-Nymphus).
1) In the left section a standing woman, frontal (Becatti, Pl. XII, 1), in short hair dress, dressed in a violet tunica and yellow himation. In her right outstretched hand she holds a mirror; with her left hand she arranges a leaf-crown (Venus-Nymphus).