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The New Mithraeum Database

Find news, articles, monuments, persons, books and videos related to the Cult of Mithras

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Mitreo delle Pareti Dipinte

The House of the Mithraeum of the Painted Walls was built in the second half of the 2nd century BC (opus incertum) and modified during the Augustan period.

 
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Inscription of Lucius Sempronius

Slab marble indicates that Lucius Sempronius has donated a throne to the Mitreo delle Pareti Dipinte.

 
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Basin with inscription from Mitreo della Planta Pedis

The dedicator of this marble basin could be the same person who offered the sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull in the Mitreo delle Terme di Mitra.

 
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Inscription found in the Mitreo delle Sette Sfere

As this short inscription indicates, Aemilio Epaphorodito was both Pater and priest of the Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres.

 
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Mitreo di Felicissimo

The Mithraeum Felicissimus has a floor mosaic depicting the seven mithraic grades.

 
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Mitreo presso Porta Romana

The Mithraeum near Porta Romana was connected to a Sacello, but the door was blocked.

 
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CIMRM 308

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

 
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CIMRM 307

Two fragments of a marble frieze (L. 0.52 and 0.78 H. 0.30), one found in 1890 in the outer porticus of the Theatre, and the other found in 1938 near the Mithraeum.

 
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CIMRM 306

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

 
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CIMRM 305

CIL XIV 4309, found near the Mithraeum.

 
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CIMRM 304

CIL XIV 4318.

 
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CIMRM 303

Marble slab (H. 0.16 Br. 0.36).

 
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CIMRM 302

Marble slab, used in the pavement of the floor.

 
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CIMRM 295

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

 
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CIMRM 292

Lower part of a statue (H. 0.37), which certainly stood on one of the bases at the beginnings of the podia.

 
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CIMRM 291

Fragments of a krater of a sort of green glazed maiolica with silver sheen.

 
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CIMRM 290

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

 
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CIMRM 289

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

 
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CIMRM 288

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)…

 
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CIMRM 286

Parva basis marmorea.

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