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Monumentum

Rock-cut Mithraeum at St. Urban

Natural grotto called the Bichl on the south slope above the Glanegg lake near St. Urban, Noricum, adapted as a Mithraic sanctuary; part of the grotto floor was paved and remnants of water installations survive.
 
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28 May 2026

TNMM 2302 ↔ CIMRM 1442

A grotto, called "Bichl" and situated "an der Südseite oberhalb des St. Urbaner Sees" above Glanegg served as a Mithraeum.

Hauser in MCC VIII, 1882, XXII; Jabornegg, Kärnten, No. 235 and Pl. VII, 2; MMM II 338 No. 237; Leber in Carinthia I, 145, 1955, 187ff.

Part of the natural grotto (H. 3.00 Br. 8.50 L. 5.50) had a pavement, and remnants of a watertube were discovered. In the rubbish animal bones, children's teeth; fragments of pottery; pieces of charcoal; coins of Crispus, Constantius, Gallus, Valens and Valentinianus were found. A second, smaller grotto (Br. 5.00) communicates with it.

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