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Monumentum

Mithréum de Septeuil

In the second half of the 4th century, a Mithraic temple was established within an earlier spring sanctuary at Septeuil, where the cult of the nymphs and Mithraic practices appear to have coexisted.

Front entrance view of the Septeuil Mithraeum.
The New Mithraeum / @antonius (CC BY-SA)
Rear view of the Septeuil Mithraeum.
The New Mithraeum / @antonius (CC BY-SA)
The reclining nymph discovered at Septeuil, part of the earlier spring sanctuary.
The New Mithraeum / @antonius (CC BY-SA)
Reconstruction of the sanctuary at Septeuil during its Mithraic phase.
Marion Baudrand
Plan of the sanctuary at Septeuil, with the mithraeum on the right.
Marion Baudrand
Sculpture of Mithras emerging from the rock from Septeuil.
Michael Fuller

The New Mithraeum

27 May 2021

Updated on Dec 2025

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The remains correspond to a sanctuary built at the end of the 1st century AD or the beginning of the 2nd century. The building was first used as a spring sanctuary and then, from the 4th century onwards, as a mithraeum (a sanctuary dedicated to the oriental deity Mithras). It was finally abandoned in the last quarter of the 4th century.

In the second half of the 4th century, the building, which was being demolished, was redesigned. A partition physically separates the two rooms at the location of the gutter. The northern room was equipped with a fireplace along the western wall and was

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Mithras rock-born of Septeuil

A serpent emerging from a umbilicus at the side of the stele coils over Mithras naked body.