Monumentum
Mithraeum at Moosham
Small Mithraic sanctuary (8 × 8 m) excavated in 1950–52 on a slope west of Schloss Moosham, Noricum, on the left bank of the river Mur; the finds include a marble epistylium, a Mithras head, and fragmentary altars.
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
In 1950–1952 a small Mithraeum was found (L. 8.00 Br. 8.00).M. Hell in PAR I, 1951, 12f; II 1952, 6f; H. Vetters in Fasti VII, 1954 No. 4950; K. Willvonseder in Salzburger Museum Carolino Augusteum, Jahresheft, 1952 237f; 112f.The Mithraeum is situated on a slope west of the Schlosz Moosham on the l. bank of the river Mur about 100 mtrs east of the Roman road from Leisznitz to Manterndorf. In the backwall of the sanctuary an epistylium (No. 1403) was fastened. According to the terrasigillata the Mithraeum was constructed in the second cent. A.D.; it was destroyed by the Christians.
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