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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
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.

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