Monumentum
Mithraic sanctuary area at Vetera
Group of altars and a base indicating the existence of a Mithraeum near the Roman camp of Vetera.
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
TNMM 1451 ↔ CIMRM 1003
At some distance north of the Roman Camp and in the neighbourhood of the Roman pottery of the Legio XX and of the Legio XXX, two altars and a base were found in 1877. These objects discovered before the so-called Scharntor indicate that here must have been a Mithraeum. I do not know whether the finds are still in the Museum des Niederrheinischen Altertumvereins at Xanten.
Dünzer in Picks Monatschrift IV, 1878, 51ff; MMM II 389 No. 266; Steiner, Xanten 74ff and fig.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
