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Mithraeum

Ad Augusta per Angusta

Locus

Cibinium

Name: Cibinium
Address: Sibiu, Romania

Roman settlement of Dacia superior located in the area of present-day Sibiu in Romania. The site became an important urban and military centre, later developed into the medieval city known as Hermannstadt in German and Nagyszeben in Hungarian.

Mithraic monuments of Cibinium

Petrogeny from Sibiu

As usual, the solar god rises a dagger with one of his hands while emerges from the rock.

CIMRM 2184

Petrogeny from Sibiu

This white marble statue of the rock-birth from Cibinium in Roman Dacia is one of the largest known Mithraic sculptures from the Danubian provinces.

CIMRM 2188

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Location
Dacia superior, Dacia, today in the area of Sibiu (Romania)

From the Wikipedia Sibiu is a city in central Romania, situated in the historical region of Transylvania. Located some 275 km north-west of Bucharest, the city straddles the Cibin River, a tributary of the Olt River. Now the seat of Sibiu County, between 1692 and 1791 and 1849–65, Sibiu was the capital of the Principality of Transylvania. Until 1876, the Hecht house in Sibiu served as the seat of the Transylvanian Saxon University. Nicknamed The Town with Eyes for the eyebrow dormers on many old buildings.

Canonical URL https://www.mithraeum.eu/location/24

TNML 24

Published on 22 Apr 2023

Updated on 28 May 2026