Monumentum
Possible Mithraeum from Uruk
Large apsidal hall with podium discovered at Uruk-Warka, once interpreted as a possible Mithraic sanctuary.
The New Mithraeum
25 May 2026
TNMM 1434 ↔ CIMRM 7c
J. van Dijk in Phoenix II 1956, 83 fig. 51 gives a reproduction of a building about which H. J. Lensen in MDOG 87, 1955, 46ff and fig. 11 gives a more profound account.
A large room (L. 15.30 Br. 11.20) with an apse and with a podium may give the impression of a Mithraeum, but Prof. Lensen clearly states, that the minor finds neither prove the existence of a Mithraic sanctuary nor of an early Christian Church.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
