Monumentum
Mitreo I de Carnuntum
Mithraeum.eu
28 May 2007
Mithraeum I, found between Bad Deutsch-Altenburg and Petronell, 40 km down the Danube from Vienna (Roman Vindobona), in 1852, in the neighbourhood of a quarry situated on the slope of a steep hill.
According to the scarcely detailed design of von Sacken, the lay-out of the temple must have been nearly semi-circular. Projecting rocks and the occasional artificial addition of masonry and blocks of stone gave the Mithraeum the appearance of a grotto. It is highly probable, that only the half-round apse has been preserved and that the rest of the sanctuary stood before it (Cumont). In this apse, lying on the North, a piece of stuccoed wall was found decorated with yellow-red horizontal and oblong lines. Part of the wall with the entrances has also been discovered. Nearly all finds are at Vienna (Wein), Kunsthistorisches Museum.
According to the scarcely detailed design of von Sacken, the lay-out of the temple must have been nearly semi-circular. Projecting rocks and the occasional artificial addition of masonry and blocks of stone gave the Mithraeum the appearance of a grotto. It is highly probable, that only the half-round apse has been preserved and that the rest of the sanctuary stood before it (Cumont). In this apse, lying on the North, a piece of stuccoed wall was found decorated with yellow-red horizontal and oblong lines. Part of the wall with the entrances has also been discovered. Nearly all finds are at Vienna (Wein), Kunsthistorisches Museum.
Data
- City Bad Deutsch-Altenburg
- Country Austria
- Latitude and longitude 16.886525, 48.122664
- Type
- Discovered date 1852
- CIMRM 1664