The New Mithraeum Database

The Mithraeum of Spoleto was found in 1878 by the professor Fabio Gori on behalf of Marquis Filippo Marignoli, owner of the land.

Spoleto is an ancient city in the Italian province of Perugia in east-central Umbria on a foothill of the Apennines.

Altar of travertin (H. 1.02) with an inscription, found before the niche near B.

Cone-shaped piece of stone (H. 1.32) with a square hole on two third of its height.

Triangular prisma in cippolino marble (H. 0.77 Br. 0.23).

On the walls of the side-benches originally six figures had been painted (see fig. 192, C).

Statuette in bone (H. 0.10).

Terracotta arm (L. 0.13), found near the cone-shaped stone (No. 675).

An oxidized sacrificial knife.

A medal in the form of a Grecian cross, on which busts of a bearded man and of a woman with veiled head (according to Cumont they might be Sol and Luna).

Earthen lamp with the name of C.

"Ornata di ovolo, reperta nel castello della Fratta presso Montefalco".

White marble fragment.