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Marino (Marino)

Marino has been inhabited by Latin tribes since the 1st millennium BC. During the Roman Republic it was a summer resort for Roman patricians who built luxurious villas in the area.

Locus

Castrimoenium (Marino)

Marino is an Italian comune with 46,676 inhabitants located in the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital in Lazio.

Monumentum

Mitreo di Marino

The Marino Mithraeum preserves one of the most elaborate painted cycles of Mithras’ myth, combining the tauroctony, planetary symbolism and scenes from the god’s sacred narrative.

Monumentum

Altar from the Mitreo di Marino

The monument is engraved with an inscription by Cresces, the donor.

Monumentum

Fresco Tauroctony of Mitreo di Marino

The importance of the Mithraeum of Marino lies in its frescoes, the most significant of which is that of Mithras slaying the bull, surrounded by mythological scenes.

Textus

Il Mitreo di Marino. Una scoperta eccezionale alle porte di Roma

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Il mitreo di Marino

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Video

Mitreo di Marino

Interview to one of the workers who participated in the discovery of the temple of Mithras of Marino, Rome.

Liber

Mithriaca III: The Mithraeum at Marino

This magnificently illustrated publication renews the Mithraic dossier on the basis of concrete data, with caution and penetration. Marino's discovery is disconcerting and rekindles the controversy about the order in which bands should be read.

Syndexios

Crescens

Administrator, probably a slave of Pater Alfius Severus, who dedicated the main altar of the Mitreo di Marino.

Syndexios

Alfius Severus

Prominent owner or entrepreneur at Marino, known through the dedication made by his administrator Cresces.

Monumentum

Head of Mithras from Locri Epizephyrii

Head, possibly of Mithras, wearing a Phrygian cap, found in the bed of the Millicri River, near Locri, Calabria.

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