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: S. Clemente, Rome
Date of structure: Second half second century AD
Century of structure 1: 2 AD
Century of structure 2:
Specific place of mosaic: Insides of light wells, barrel vault, lunettes
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: Full range of colours, some trees and foliage discernible
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:
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), 117-8
See also:
De Rossi, BACrist/Bulletino de Archeologia Christiana 2,1 (1870), 129ff pls 10,11
Cumond, F., Textes et monuments figurés relatifs aux Mystères de Mithra (Brussels, 1896-99), 2, 203-5, figs 30, 31
Nolan, The Basilica of San Clemente (1934), 170-81
Vermaseren, M.J., Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae (The Hague: 1956), 156-7, no. 338

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