The Mithraic evidence documented in Alpes Poenninae remains limited but geographically significant for understanding circulation across the central Alps. The province occupied a strategic position within the communication corridors linking northern Italy to the Rhine and Gallic regions.
Mithraic monuments of Alpes Poenninae
Mithraeum de Martigny
The Mithraeum of Martigny is the first temple devoted to Mithras found in Switzerland.
Cup of Eutyches from Martigny
Ceramic cup inscribed with a Greek graffito and recovered from the Mithraeum of Martigny, providing evidence for the use of inscribed vessels within the sanctuary assemblage.
Places in Alpes Poenninae
Octodurus
The Gaulish name of today Martigny was either Octodurus or Octodurum in the 1st century BC. It was conquered by the Romans in 57 BC and occupied by Servius Galba with the Legion XII.
