Monumentum
Mithraeum of Virunum
A bronze plaque records the existence of a mithraeum at Virunum that collapsed and was rebuilt by members of the community.
Plaque with list of Mithraic fellows from Virunum
The New Mithraeum / @andreu.abuin (CC BY-SA)
Drawing of the plaque with list of Mithraic fellows from Virunum
Gernot Piccottini via Tertullian.org
Mithraic inscription of Aurelius Hermodorus
The New Mithraeum / @andreu.abuin (CC BY-SA)
The New Mithraeum
16 Jan 2022
Updated on Mar 2022
In 1992 a bronze plaque recording the dedication of a mithraeum was discovered in Virunum, the principal town and administrative capital of the province of Noricum. The mithraeum, as the text of the plaque reveals, had collapsed in some sort of catastrophe, probably natural, and the members rebuilt it at their own expense. The plaque functioned as the mithraeum's album. The original thirty-four contributors to the rebuilding were listed in the furst one and one third columns of an eventual four columns, and thereafter names were added in different hands until the album was full.
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