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Mithras in Rhaetia

Rhaetia occupied a strategic frontier position between the Alps, the upper Danube and northern Italy where Mithraic cults circulated through military networks.

The corpus from Rhaetia reflects the province’s importance within the frontier infrastructure of the Roman empire. Military installations, communication routes and urban settlements contributed to the diffusion of Mithraic cults across the Alpine and Danubian regions.

Mithraic monuments of Rhaetia

See all Mithraic monuments in Rhaetia

Places in Rhaetia

 

Castra Quintana

Künzing is a municipality in the district of Deggendorf, Bavaria, Germany.

 

Castra Regina

Regensburg is a city in eastern Bavaria, at the confluence of the rivers Danube, Naab and Regen, Danube's northernmost point.

 

Fürth

Fürth is a city in northern Bavaria, Germany, in the administrative division of Middle Franconia.

 

San Zeno

San Zeno is a locality near Tuenno in the Val di Non, where Mithraic material attributed to Roman Raetia was discovered.

 

Sublavio

Waidbruck is a comune in South Tyrol in northern Italy, located about 20 kilometres northeast of Bolzano.

Inscriptions from Rhaetia

Double-sided marble relief fragment from San Zeno

Deo Invicto Mithrae.
To the unconquered god Mithras.

Altar from Künzing by Valerius Magio

I[nvicto] M[ithrae]/V[alerius] Magio/vet[eranus] [h]on[esta] m[issione]/d[imissus] v[otum] s[olvit] l[ibens] l[aetus] m[erito].
To the unconquered Mithras Valerius Magio, veteran with honourable discharge, [has] fulfilled the vow gladly, with joy and according to merit.

Inscription by Valentinus Secundionis

D[eo] i[nvicto] M[ithrae] / et Soli soci/o sac[rum] Valen/tinus Se/cund[i]on[i]s / ob memor[iam] / patris sui / ex colleg[a] / v[otum] s[olvit] l[ibens] m[erito].
Consecrated to the invincible god Mithras and his ally Sol. Valentinus Secundionis, in memory of his father, the College, has fulfilled his vow willingly and justly.
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