Mithraeum of the Seven Gates

Name of structure: Mithraeum of the Seven Gates
Extended name of structure:
Type of structure: Mithraeum
Country or main area: Italy
Region within country or main area: Lazio
City or area within region: Ostia
Date of structure: 160-170 AD
Century of structure 1: 2 AD
Century of structure 2:
Specific place of mosaic: Couches, sides of pilasters
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: Cautes and Cautopates, Mars and Venus, young female representing the moon and Mercury, in black and white stone mosaic
Date of mosaic: 160-170 AD
Century of mosaic 1: 2 AD
Century of mosaic 2:
Silver tessera at site: No
Gold tessera at site: No
Colour tessera at site:
Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)?
Has analysis been done?
Samples taken from where?
Excavation and restoration campaigns:
Bibliography of mainly technical resources:

Sear, Frank B., Roman Wall and Vault Mosaics (Heidelberg: F. H. Kerle Verlag, 1977), 116
See also:
Becatti, G., Scavi di Ostia, vol 2 (Rome: 1954), 93-99, pls 20, 21
Vermaseren, M.J., Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae (The Hague: 1956), 136-138, nos 287-88

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