Plaque with the list of worshippers of Virunum

This large bronze plaque, discovered being reused in the floor of a private dwelling, where it had been carefully placed in the ground with the inscribed face down, bears the dedication for a restoration of a Mithraeum, undertaken in 183 C.E. after it had collapsed, along with a list (album) of members of the Mithraic community at the time.The original temple must have been constructed during the second third of the 2nd century, perhaps in the area west of the urban area of Virunum, the provincial capital of Noricum. Various pieces of evidence, among them several fragments from a panelled…