The New Mithraeum Database

During the excavations of the Dolichenum on the Aventine in 1935, two Mithraic monuments have been discovered and besides statues of Sol, Luna, Venus, Silvanus and Hercules.

Basis marmorea anno 1764 in monte Aventino effossa.

"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).

Pars superior parvae columnae marmoreae litteris saeculi secundi exeuntis vel tertii effossa ut videtur in Esquilino.

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

Duo fragmenta marmorea facile eiusdem lapidis litteris detritis in ecclesiae pavimento inserta.

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.

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.

Fragments of two torchbearers (MMM II No. 19d).

Marble cippus, of which two sides only have been preserved (H. 0.40 Br. 0.37).