Monumentum
Fresco of procession of grades at Santa Prisca
Procession of figures dressed in different ways with inscriptions calling them by the seven grades of the Mithraic initiation cult.
Procession of 'leones' from Santa Prisca Mithraeum
Procession of 'leones' from Santa Prisca Mithraeum
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2007
Updated on 8 Feb 2022
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On the side-walls of the Santa Prisca Mithraeum, two layers of painting have to be distinguished; these are set off with red bands. Dr C. C. van Essen, who studied the style of these paintings, dates the first layer in the end of the second cent. A.D. and the second layer in the first quarter of the third cent. A.D. Our description is partly taken from the publication of Ferrua, who was able to observe details, which now are lost.
On the Southern wall (I2) successively (cf. Ferrua, fig.
On the Southern wall (I2) successively (cf. Ferrua, fig.