A structure discovered within the Roman villa of Els Munts has been interpreted by its excavators as a Mithraeum and, if this identification is correct, it would rank among the largest known Mithraic sanctuaries in the Roman world. The building consists of a long hall flanked by raised benches and preceded by an antechamber, a layout broadly comparable to the biclinium-like arrangement characteristic of many Mithraic shrines. However, the interpretation remains controversial. No Mithraic inscriptions, tauroctony reliefs, statues of Mithras, or other unequivocal iconographic evidence have been…
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