Mithraeum I of Aquincum — The New Mithraeum

The New Mithraeum

24 Aug 2021

Updated on Mar 2022

TNMM 356 ↔ CIMRM 1742

A Mithraeum I existing in the potter's quarter of the ancient city. We only know that the building had a rectangular groundplan and that it was destroyed in the time of the Marcoman wars (Nagy in BpTort II, 433). Four altars found side by side belong to this sanctuary of which no further details are known.

References

Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae

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