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Capua

Capua is currently a city and comune in the province of Caserta, in the region of Campania, southern Italy, situated 25 km north of Naples, on the northeastern edge of the Campanian plain.
  • Interior of the Capua Mithraeum

    Interior of the Capua Mithraeum
    The New Mithraeum / Andreu Abuín (CC BY-SA) 

  • Current entrance.

    Current entrance.
    The New Mithraeum / Andreu Abuín (CC BY-SA) 

  • Fresco representando la tauroctonia del Mitreo de Capua

    Fresco representando la tauroctonia del Mitreo de Capua 

  • Cautes fresco on Santa Maria Capua Vetere

    Cautes fresco on Santa Maria Capua Vetere
    The New Mithraeum / Jorge Gallo (CC BY-NC-SA) 

  • CIMRM 182

    CIMRM 182 

  • Scene of the initiation into the Mithras cult.

    Scene of the initiation into the Mithras cult.
    CIMRM 

  • Fresco scene of initiation at S. Capua Vetere

    Fresco scene of initiation at S. Capua Vetere
    CIMRM 

Mithraic monuments of Capua

 

Mitreo di Santa Maria Capua Vetere

The Mithraeum of Santa Maria Capua Vetere preserves frescoes depicting several scenes of the initiation rites.

CIMRM 180

 

Tauroctony of Santa Maria Capua Vetere

The main fresco of the Mithraeum of Santa Maria Capua Vetere portrays Mithras slaughtering a white bull.

CIMRM 181

 

Cautes fresco from Mitreo di Santa Maria Capua Vetere

In the Mithraeum of S. Capua Veteres, Cautes stands between two laurel trees.

CIMRM 182

 

A man is initiated into the Mysteries of Mithras

This is the first of several fresco scenes depicting the initiation of a new member in a mithraic community, in Capua Vetere.

CIMRM 187

 

Kneeling man from Santa Maria Capua Vetere

This scene from the frescoes of the Mitreo di Santa Maria Capua Vetere shows a kneeling, naked man surrounded by two other figures.

CIMRM 191

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