Una testimonianza del culto mitriaco a Colle Arsiccio di Magione (PG)

Flavia Morandini (1, 2, 3)

1 Celtes et Etrusques : identités, pouvoirs, échanges
2 AOROC - Archéologie et Philologie d'Orient et d'Occident
3 Ausonius-Institut de recherche sur l'Antiquité et le Moyen âge

In 1934, at Colle Arsiccio (Magione), near lake Trasimeno, a votive deposit was found. It is made up of bronzes and terracottas, dating from the VI century b.C. to the Constantinian age. The terracottas can be divided into two groups: the "naked" ones that represent typologies of the Hellenistic age (swaddling babies, crouching children, kourotrophoi) and the glazed ones. The latter are products of the Imperial age, connected with a Mithraic worship (pinax with scene of tauroctony, "foculi", glassware with snakes, votive statues), which incorporates the Hellenistic cult, devoted to Artumes. The Mithraeum of Colle Arsiccio settles in a thick system of Mithraic places, appeared during Roman age, in the hearth of central Italy.

Mots clés: central Italy; terracotta statues; cult devoted to Mithra; fertility; glazed statues; Roman age

Domaines: Archéologie et Préhistoire

Flavia Morandini. Una testimonianza del culto mitriaco a Colle Arsiccio di Magione (PG). Rivista di archeologia, 2008, 30 (2006), pp.77-91. ⟨hal-01826494⟩