Mithraeum of Eleusis

In 1927 and 1937 excavations along the way leading to the sanctuary of Demeter brought to light a Roman building of the second century A.D. at the south wall of the temenos (AA 1927, 347f). Dr. J. Travlos was so kind to send me information and the lay-out (fig. 652).The building is divided into an anteroom and a main room in which two benches (aa) and a base (b) (2.80 × 2.00). These podia gave the excavators the impression that the building was a Mithraeum. An inscription from Rome (CIL VI 1779 = CIMRM I No. 420) dating from the end of the fourth century mentions Vettius Agorius Praetextatus…