Peregrinazioni nella campagna romana . rGauckler ha avanzato la congettura che possiamo havein questo pezzo di cranio le prove di un essere umano sacrificeof consacrazione, così frequente nei riti di Semiticreligions. Il posto di onore ad esso attribuito nella Trans-tiberina santuario mostra quanto preziosa era nel eyesof iniziati, a spese di chi il santuario aveva beenrel)uilt. Questo sarebbe quindi la prima evidenza di ahuman olocausto mai trovati a Roma. La vittima, im-molated secondo gli antichi riti, in virtù di thesacrifice catena sarebbe il dio, come lo sono state le reliquie,assicurando così il suo

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Wanderings in the Roman campagna . rGauckler has advanced the conjecture that we may havein this piece of skull the evidence of a human sacrificeof consecration, so frequent in the rites of Semiticreligions. The place of honor given to it in the Trans-tiberine sanctuary shows how valuable it was in the eyesof the initiated, at whose expense the sanctuary had beenrel)uilt. This would be, then, the first evidence of ahuman holocaust ever found in Rome. The victim, im-molated according to the ancient rites, by virtue of thesacrifice would chain the god, as it were, to the relics, thus insuring his actual presence wherever they were THE LAND OF HADRIAN 177 preserved. We must remember, apropos of this theory, that when the Mithrseum of Alexandria was suppressedby the Emperor Constantius in 361, a party of Christianinvaders discovered in a secret passage human bones, which were shown to the populace as a proof that humansacrifices had been perpetrated in that den of iniquities.Another secret has been found buried in the core of. What was found in the hiding-place the triangular altar at the eastern end of the l)uilding.It seems that on the consecration day a symljolic imageof the presiding god, or of one of the presiding gods, wasburied in a hiding-place identical in shape with the onedescribed above, and sealed with a tegula bipedalislined with cement around the rim. Lying at the bottomof the cache, with feet turned towards the west, viz., towards the high altar, was a bronze figure of a MithrasLeontokephalos (?), wound, as usual, in the coils of a 178 WANDERINGS IN THE ROMAN CAMPAGNA snake, whose head bends forward above that of the god.The interrogation mark in such matter-of-fact ques-tions is easily exphiined. On the day of the consecra-tion, before the hiding-phice was sealed, in which thesnake and its symbolic victim were to lie forever, mysticfood was provided for the re])tile, and five hens eggswere dej)osited, one at each coil. I do not know howthese eggs came to I)

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