The New Mithraeum Database

The Museum of the Therms has also a marble statue of a cross-legged torch- bearer (H. 0.58) in Eastern attire, cross-legged (Inv. No. 283).

Tabula lapidis Tiburtini reperta anno 1740 in vinea sub aede D.

In the lower strata of sand of the Mithraeum, two coins of Commodus and one of his wife, Crispina, two of Diocletianus and one of Galerius, one of Constans and two of Valens were found.

A marble mortar (H. 0.125) ; pieces of glass; a great number of plates and dishes; moreover lamps, dating from the first four centuries.

Very small relief with the representation of Mithras, slaying the bull.

Small marble relief (H. 0.20 Br. 0.25 D.0.06).

Fragment of a Greek marble relief (H. 0.35 Br. 0.30 D. 0.12), found in the Via Borgo Vecchio.

Graffito on the back-wall of room M.

A small lamp (diam. 0.11) on which a flying Victoria has been represented, holding a crown in the r.

Two white marble statues (H. 0.51 and 0.47), found in 1886 "sotto illato setten- trionale del Palatino fra questo colle e la Via S.

CIL VI 752; MMM II No.

White marble statue (H. 0.50), found in the Castra Pretoria in 1882.

Franz Cumont kindly drew our attention on several ancient fragments, walled in the wall of the flight of steps in the house at the Via Boncompagni 101 (boarding- house Cosmopolita).

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

In lapide marmoreo reperta prope S.

"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.

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

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

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