The New Mithraeum Database

Mithraeum situated in the Western corridor of a complex of buildings generally held to be as magazzini repubblicani (Reg. II, Is. II, 5).

Two small altars, walled in the corners of the benches, with a representation of a jug (Becatti, PI. VII).

Around the altar, described in the preceding No.

Marble lion's head, which was fastened into a wall because the marble of the backside ends into a flat square (Visconti, 171; MMM 243, 1).

1) A small lamp with two wicks, found in front of the niche with the Silvanus' mosaic.

The marble cap, mentioned by Visconti (p. 171), certainly belongs to the finds of Mitreo degli Animali (see No. 280).

Marble slab with inscription walled in the right handside of the lower part of the cult- niche (H. 0.57 Br. 0.29).

Marble altar (H. 0.60 (with base 1.40) Br.

Small marble base.

The mosaic paved floor of the central aisle shows different figures: 1) On the threshold a large central arch formed by two pilasters; this main arch, from which hangs an oscillum is flanked by three minor arches on either side (seven spheres of the planets) (Becatti, PI. XIX)…

Marble altar found near the entrance (H. 0.295 Br. 0.22 D. 0.21).

Lamp with six wicks, found near the altar before the cult-niche.

Small altar of travertine (H. 0.38 Br. 0.20) without decoration or inscription.

Graffito, inscribed by the possessor of a simple dark room, on a wall of the Caseggiato del Sole (Reg. V, Is. VI, I); this house is situated annex to the Mitreo dei Serpenti (Becatti, MitreiOstia, 125ff,fig.24andpl. XXXVIII,4) (L.H.0.02-0.04).

A base in the form of an altar (H. 0.185 Br. 0.14) and five small bacchic herms; eleven lamps.

Small cippus (H. 0.34 Br. 0.18 D. 0.16), found opposite the Theatre.

In the irregular room opposite the sanctuary, the so-called Dominicum Clementis, a marble statuette, representing a bearded person as the good Shepherd was found.

In the room left to the entrance of the Mithraeum, there is a well, from which water runs through a pipe, which penetrates the wall and empties in a square basin.

"Parte inferiore di un fusto di candelabro a guisa di tronco di palma uscente da un nascimento di foglie d'acanto; nel plinto in tre lati la inscrizione" (Lan- ciani in BAM 1875,248).

A low-relief of Mithras tauroctone was found in 1928 by the Comtesse de Robi- lant in a cellar, full of the debris of the Palazzo del Grillo behind the Forum of Augustus.