Monumentum
Mithraeum at Kreta
Mithraic sanctuary excavated in a quarry at Kreta near Nikopol, Moesia Inferior, carved into the rock and including a small niche with a sandstone tauroctony relief, a base, and several altars.
Tauroctony of PlevenCarole Raddato
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
Updated on Jun 2026
Near the village of Kreta (distr. Nikopol), 12 kmtrs south of the Danube and on the r. bank of the Vit (Utus) there are stone-quarries which were already used in Antiquity. In the quarry of Veliko Iwanow, situated at a distance of 2 kmtrs. west of the village, a Mithraeum was excavated in 1933. The finds are in Sofia, National Museum.Welkow in La Bulgarie IX, 1935 col. 3055, 30; BIAB VIII, 1934, 82ff; Kazarow in Germania 1935, 25 No. 2.The Mithraeum has been hewn out in the rock (H. 1.80–2.00 L. 7.00 Br. 6.00) and its floor is 2 mtrs. above ground-level so that there may have been steps…
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