Monumentum
Mosaic of the Mitreo di Felicissimo
The Felicissimo Mithraeum has a floor mosaic depicting the seven mithraic grades.
Floor mosaic of the Mitreo Felicissimus
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Pater grade
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Heliodromus
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Last step of the mosaic on the floor of the Mitreo Felicissimus
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Miles grade
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The New Mithraeum
10 Jul 2009
Updated on 12 Mar 2022
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The central aisle of the Mithraeum di Felicissimus has a mosaic pavement with the symbolic representations of the different mithraic grades:
- Near the entrance is a stylized tree.
- In the middle of the floor, in the space between the entrance and the niche, is a krater.
- Before the niche is a burning altar.
- Avobe the crater and then in the direction of the backwall the following figures, separated form each other by black bands: Two phrygian caps surmonted by a crescent.