Monumentum
Possible Mithraic sanctuary north of the Idsteinerstrasse
Triple-part sanctuary at Saalburg whose Mithraic interpretation remains uncertain despite serpent-vases and possible Aion fragments.
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
TNMM 1471 ↔ CIMRM 1049
At Saalburg, north of the Idsteinerstrasze a sanctuary was excavated in 1921. It is divided into three parts but "so sehr dem Bau als solchem ein gewisser mithrischer Charakter nicht abzusprechen ist, so weisen die darin gefundenen Überreste des Kultbildes nach einer anderen Richtung" (Jacobi, Saalburg Jahrbuch V, 1913 (II) Frankfurt 1924, 26). Neither can the fragments of a wing which might have belonged to an Aion, nor a serpent-vase give a definite solution to the question whether or not this sanctuary is a Mithraeum.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
