Monumentum
Sabazeo
The Mithraeum was found in one of the rooms of the Horrea built in the years 120 - 125 AD. The installation of the shrine may have taken place in the first half of the third century.
The Mithras's shrine seen from the west.
Daniel González Acuña – Ostia-antica.org
The Mithras's shrine seen from the west.
SAOA B3141
Mosaic of Fructus
Ostia-Antica.org / Eric Taylor
The New Mithraeum
27 Apr 2010
Updated on Aug 2022
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Vaglieri in NSc 1909, 20f; Becatti, Mitrei Ostia, 113ff and fig. 23, PI. XXVI, 2.
The sanctuary (L. 13.00 Br. 5.60) was constructed in a part of Horrea and is divided in a central aisle (Br. 2.07) and two side-benches (Br. 1.80 H. 0.40) sloping towards the walls. Only the left one is as long as the sanctuary itself.
The entrance is in the right wall (Br. 1.00); here a corridor leads into the central aisle, which is partly decorated with a mosaic pavement (see below). In the
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