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Monumentum

Supposed Mithraeum of Saalburg

Elongated cult building near the Saalburg fort traditionally interpreted as a Mithraeum but later reconsidered as a possible funerary enclosure.
 
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
At Saalburg at a distance of about 250 mtrs west of the decumanus of the castra and 30 mtrs west of the Roman road to Heddernheim a room was excavated by L. Jacobi in 1903, which has been interpreted as a Mithraeum. It is situated south of the Canabae and is adjacent to a sanctuary of Cybele. The finds are in the Saalburg museum at Homburg.L. Jacobi, S.W.; WsdZ (Korr.) 1903, 140ff; BPhW 1903, 861; Passauer, Saalburg, 1ff; H. Jacobi, Führer Saalburg, 34ff; Saalburg in ORL (Lief. LVI No. 11), 46ff and Pl. VII, 3; Leipoldt, fig. 8.The sanctuary (L. 11.60 Br. 6.00) is built in south-eastern…

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