Monumentum
The Mithraeum of Rusicade
The Rusicade Mithraeum is notable for the absence of a tauroctony relief, instead yielding multiple altars and unusual installations including conduit pipes and a pine-cone shaped stone.
CIMRM 138
Vermaseren's Corpus
The New Mithraeum
6 Apr 2026
Leglay in CRAI 1954, 269ff cf. L. Leschi in Actes du 2e Congrès International d’Épigraphie grecque et latine, Paris 1952 (1953), 125 now gives a more detailed description of the Mithraeum (see fig. 247), which is situated at the end of the “avenue sacrée” east of the Asclepieium and its baths with which the Mithras sanctuary is connected at the south side.
The sanctuary (L. 16.40 Br. 8.40) running East-West has its entrance at the West side and is accessible by descending two wide steps. The Mithraeum, about one metre deep, has the usual division into a corridor (Br. 4.40) and the two podia (H. 0.80 Br…
The sanctuary (L. 16.40 Br. 8.40) running East-West has its entrance at the West side and is accessible by descending two wide steps. The Mithraeum, about one metre deep, has the usual division into a corridor (Br. 4.40) and the two podia (H. 0.80 Br…
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