CIMRM Supplement - Mithraeum of the Crypta Balbi, Rome.


Map of the site.From: Electronic Journal of Mithraic Studies.

The Mithraeum.From: Electronic Journal of Mithraic Studies.

Fragment of top right of tauroctony, showing Mithras (with traces of gold paint on his face) looking over his shoulder, Luna at top right, and the bull below.From: Electronic Journal of Mithraic Studies.

Map of the area of Rome containing the crypta Balbi.From: Electronic Journal of Mithraic Studies.

Inscription from the Mithraeum. (And a familiar name in there?)From: Electronic Journal of Mithraic Studies.

Lamps found in the Mithraeum. From: Electronic Journal of Mithraic Studies.

General view.

From: here.

In 2000 a Mithraeum was discovered in Rome at the site of the theatre and porticus of L. Cornelius Balbus. It seems to have been built ca. 200 AD and gone out of use in the 4th century AD. Fragments of a 3rd century tauroctony were found in the rubble with which it was filled after disuse. The Crypta Balbi is now part of the National Roman Museum.

From the EJMS:

Note: this material has been copied in the interests of preservation from the EJMS site, which seems increasingly abandoned and whose original site has vanished.

Coordinates: 41° 54' 00" N, 12° 30' 00! / 41.900° N, 12.500° E.1

Bibliography

  • Ricci, Marco. "Il mitreo della Crypta Balbi Roma Note preliiminan," Roman Mithraism: the Evidence of the Small Finds. Brussels: Institute for the archaeological Heritage, 2004. pp. 157-165.
  • Sagui, Lucia. "Il mitreo della Crypta Balbi e i suoi repert," Roman Mithraism: the Evidence of the Small Finds. Brussels: Institute for the Archaeological heritage, 2004. pp. 167-178.

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1My thanks to John Brandt for the coordinates and the bibliography.

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