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The mosaic flooring of the Mithraeum of Felicissimus, badly in need of maintenance.

Barely visible at bottom right in the second visible mosaic panel (which is actually the first in a series of seven panels of the same size representing the seven stages of initiation in Mithraism and the seven planets), is a raven and a caduceus, a reference to the planet Mercury.


 

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