The New Mithraeum Database

CIL VI 752; MMM II No.

Before the niche in the central aisle stands an altar (H. 0.80 Br. 0.60), covered with marble.

The floor of this appartment was covered with black and white mosaic.

Lanciani, Storia Scavi, III, 200 gives another interesting note about a second Mithraeum, discovered in 1869 near the previous sanctuary in Muti's gardens.

In lapide marmoreo reperta prope S.

Basis parva semirotunda reperta in monte Quirinali in via Mazzarini in Mithraeo exiguo.

Fragmentum tabulae magnae marmoreae litteris magnis parum bonis saeculi quinti, effossum in monte Quirinali ubi nunc transit via quae dicitur Nazionale.

Marble relief (H. 0.43 Br. 0.85 D. 0.065), of which the left lower corner is missing.

White marble statue (H. 0.25 Br. 0.11).

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.

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)…

Small marble base.

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

Little building near K.

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

a) Three small altars of tuff.

Fragment of a relief.

Fragment of a relief (H. 0.63), found at Labicum "nella vigna di Luigi Domi- nicis, situata fra Colonna e la strada corriera" in the ruins of an Roman villa.

Inscription from Antium, found at San Donato in 1884.

Two marble busts (H. 0.96), found at Formiae and obtained in 1902 by the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek at Copenhague (Inv. Nos 1905/6) from the Villa Borghese collection.