Monumentum
Altar from Mitreo di San Clemente
The altar of the Mithraeum of San Clemente bears the Tauroctony on the front, Cautes and Cautopates on the right and left sides and a serpent on the back.
Altar of Mithraeum San Clemente
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The New Mithraeum
31 Jan 2022
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The altar has been decorated with reliefs on four sides. In the front side Mithras is slaying the bull in a grotto. Dog and serpent with their heads near the wound; scorpion on the usual place. The god is looking at the raven perched on the rock border. In the upper corners the dressed busts of Sol with, seven rays around his head, and of Luna.
On the left side Cautopates in Eastern attire, not cross-legged. On the r. side
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