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 Prisca, Rome
Date of structure: Late second century AD
Century of structure 1: 2 AD
Century of structure 2:
Specific place of mosaic: Interior of room
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: Covered with pieces of yellow painted pumice to give grotto effect
Date of mosaic: Late 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), 119
See also:
Ferrua, BullCom/Bullettino della Commissione archeologica comunale di Roma, 68 (1940), 68-70, fig 3
Luigi, G., I monumenti antichi di Roma e Suburbio, vol 1 (Rome: 1931), suppl. 3, 56-59
Nash, Pictorial Dictionary of Ancient Rome, vol 2, 79, figs 767, 769, 770
Vermaseren, M.J., Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae (The Hague: 1956), 193-5, no. 476
Vermaseren, M. J. and van Essen, The excavations in the Mithraeum of the Church of Santa Prisca in Rome (1965), 128ff
Neuerburg, N., ‘L’architettura delle fontane e dei ninfei nell’Italia antica,’ in Memorie dell’Accademia di Archeologica Lettere e Belle Arti di Napoli, V (Naples: G. Macchiaroli, 1965), 229 no. 185

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