Mitreo di Cosa

Very likely due to its modest nature, the Cosa Mithraeum has been mentioned in scholarly publications only four times – each in passing – since its discovery in 1954. This sparse attention, restricted solely to literature on Cosa, has meant that the mithraeum is well-known among those intimately familiar with the colony, but has languished in complete obscurity among Mithraic scholars for the past half century.

[... The mithraeum] is located in the basement of the curia, which, together with the comitium, constitutes the earliest structures in Cosa’s forum. The pair of connected

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