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 dei Musei di Roma, Via dell'Ara Massima, Rome
Date of structure: Third century AD
Century of structure 1: 3 AD
Century of structure 2:
Specific place of mosaic: Near podium, niche
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: Several fragments of glass found, including a fragment of blue glass paste
Date of mosaic: Third century AD
Century of mosaic 1: 3 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), 118
See also:
Pietrangeli, BullCom/Bullettino della Commissione archeologica comunale di Roma, 68 (1940), 153-61, figs 4-12
Vermaseren, M.J., Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae (The Hague: 1956), 181-84, no. 434

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