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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

    Plaque with list of Mithraic fellows from Virunum
    The New Mithraeum / Andreu Abuín (CC BY-SA) 

  • Drawing of the plaque with list of Mithraic fellows from Virunum

    Drawing of the plaque with list of Mithraic fellows from Virunum
    Gernot Piccottini via Tertullian.org 

  • Mithraic inscription of Aurelius Hermodorus

    Mithraic inscription of Aurelius Hermodorus
    The New Mithraeum / Andreu Abuín (CC BY-SA) 

 
 
The New Mithraeum
16 Jan 2022
Updated on Mar 2022
 

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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.

The primary…

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Plaque with the list of worshippers of Virunum

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