Mithraeum

Name of structure: Mithraeum
Extended name of structure:
Type of structure: Mithraeum
Country or main area: Italy
Region within country or main area: Lazio
City or area within region: Palazzo Barberini, Rome
Date of structure: Second half second century AD
Century of structure 1: 2 AD
Century of structure 2:
Specific place of mosaic: Aedicule
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: Shells and pumice to produce grotto effect
Date of mosaic: Second half second century AD
Century of mosaic 1: 2 AD
Century of mosaic 2:
Silver tessera at site: No
Gold tessera at site: No
Colour tessera at site: No
Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)?
Has analysis been done?
Samples taken from where?
Excavation and restoration campaigns:
Bibliography of mainly technical resources:

Sear, Frank B., Roman Wall and Vault Mosaics (Heidelberg: F. H. Kerle Verlag, 1977), 116
See also:
Annibaldi, BullCom/Bullettino della Commissione archeologica comunale di Roma, 71 (1943), 97-108
Vermaseren, M.J., Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae (The Hague: 1956), 168, no. 389

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