The New Mithraeum Database

Marino has been inhabited by Latin tribes since the 1st millennium BC. During the Roman Republic it was a summer resort for Roman patricians who built luxurious villas in the area.

The importance of the Mithraeum of Marino lies in its frescoes, the most significant of which is that of Mithras slaying the bull, surrounded by mythological scenes.

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The Mithraeum of Marino is the longest temple devoted to Mithras know hitherto.

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Pater (?) at Mithraeum of Marino

Administrator, probably a slave of Alfius Severus.

The monument is engraved with an inscription by Cresces, the donor.

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Video of the Comune di Marino on the Mithraeum of Marino

Interview to one of the workers who participated in the discovery of the temple of Mithras of Marino, Rome.

M.J. VERMASEREN, Mithriaca III. The Mithraeum at Marino (Etudes préliminaires aux Religions orientales dans l'Empire romain, T. 16).— Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1982.— 24 χ 15,5, XIII + 105 p., 1 frontispice en couleurs, plusieurs illustr. dans le t., 32 pi (do