San Clemente, Rome
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The Basilica of Saint Clement is a Latin Catholic minor basilica dedicated to Pope Clement I located in Rome, Italy. Archaeologically speaking, the structure is a three-tiered complex of buildings: th
Courtyard of the Basilica of Saint Clement
The lower basilica
Interior of the second basilica
Apse mosaic, San Clemente, c.1200, showing a common form of Byzantine arabesque motif of scrolled acanthus tendrils
Mithraeum
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A Mithraeum, sometimes spelled Mithreum and Mithraion, is a temple erected in classical antiquity by the worshippers of Mithras. Most Mithraea can be dated between 100 BC and 300 AD, mostly in the Rom
San Clemente, Rome
…nobleman, part of which had in the 1st century briefly served as an early church, and the basement of which had in the 2nd century briefly served as a mithraeum; (3) the home of the Roman nobleman had been built on the foundations of republican era villa and warehouse that had been destroyed in the Great Fire…
A Mithraeum found in the ruins of Ostia Antica, Italy
Mithraeum in Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina, renowned as one of the best preserved in-situ in Europe
A modern reimagining of a Mithraeum at the Museum Orientalis, Netherlands
Finds from a Mithraeum in Stockstadt, Germany