The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
Underground room (L. 61.50 Br. 8.00) situated on the border of a second Forum at Nyon which itself dates from the second half of the first cent. A.D.E. Pelichet in JSGU 35, 1944, 60f; JSGU 36, 1945, 64f; Mél. Bosset, 165ff; Staehelin, Schweiz, 562 n. 1.The oblong room has a series of pillars (H. 0.405 Br. 0.60 D. 0.38) along its side walls and at the beginning of the crosswall. Pelichet supposes that these pillars supported wooden beams and that we have to do with the benches of a Mithraeum. Only two finds were made, which, however, according to me, are not sufficient proof to regard this…
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