CIMRM 486, 487, 488, 489, 490, 491, 492, 493, 494, 495, 496 - Miscellaneous finds. Santa Prisca, Rome, Italy.

486. The upper part of a Hekataion (H. 0.08). 487. Marble triangle (L. 0.36 D. 0.135) with a semicircular opening in the middle. 488. Part of a naked Venus (H. 0.095). 489. Terracotta relief with the representation of Victoria, slaying a bull. A similar relief was found in 1953; it probably does not belong to the inventary of the Mithraeum. 490. Fragment of a marble piece of rock (H. 0.07 Br. 0.06), probably remnant of a rock-birth. 491. On a base the lower part of a Gigant with snake-feet. He is dressed in a short tunio and leans against a rock. On his 1. arm traces ofa shield. Bust, head and anus lost (See fig. 142). 492. Base (H. 0.42diam. 0.09), composed oftwo vases on top of each other. It probably supported a statue. 493. A marble mortar (H. 0.125); pieces of glass; a great number of plates and dishes; moreover lamps, dating from the first four centuries. Most material however, belongs to the rubbish.1 494. Strongly oxydised leaden plate (H. 0.55 Br. 0.43 D.0.003), on which Sol is represented with seven rays round his curly head. Another head of Sol-Mithras in intarsio was found in 1954. 495. A big jar (H. 0.72 diam. 0.56), found in Z. The upper part is detachable, so that another small cylindrical vase (H. 0.22 Br. 0.31) could be fitted into it. This limestone vase is covered with a lid, on which a graffito. It had a small round hole at the bottom (diam. 0.07), covered with green glass. W. Vollgraff, "Une inscription gravee sur un vase cultuel mithriaque", in Med. Ak. Wet. (N.R. 18, No 8) 1955 reads the graffito as follows: Te cauterio i Saturne i Ata[r i] Opi. 496. Upper part of a goddess (Fortuna) of marble from Luna (H. 0.15). She has a cornucopia in her l.h.(See fig. 143).