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Monumentum

Rock-cut Mithraeum near Prozor

Natural rock enclosure at a quarter-hour's walk from Veliki Vitalj near Prozor, Dalmatia, used as a Mithraic sanctuary, with a tauroctony carved directly into the rock.
 
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026

TNMM 2381 ↔ CIMRM 1851

At a distance of about a quarter of an hour's walk from the Veliki Vitalj in the plain between two by-ways of the mainroad there is a space which is enclosed by several rocks which has served as a Mithraeum (Patsch, Lika, 83f and fig. 31; Brunšmid in Vjesnik V, 1901, 110ff and fig. 71).

In the east side is a natural niche (H. 1.60 Br. 1.58 D. 0.70) in which is an elevation (H. 0.80). Above it in the arched niche-wall a representation of Mithras as a bullkiller is carved out (H. 0.215). The dog is present, but no other animal. On either side Cautes (r) and Cautopates (l). The upper part of the relief is damaged; above the bull's head there is the lower part of the bust of Luna, the lower part of Sol is visible behind Mithras' head.

Excavations in front of this relief by Pavelić in 1896 brought to light some lamps, amphorae and a plate. The coins date from the period between 260 and 360 A.D.

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