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
Tauroctony from Mauls
The relief of Mithras slaying the bull at Mauls in Gallia cisalpina is a paradigmatic example of the so-called Rhine-type Tauroctony.
CIMRM 1400
Mithräum von Königsbrunn
The Mithraeum of Koenigsbrunn is the only one preserved in the ancient Roman province of Rhaetia, current Bavaria.
Mithräum von Künzing
The Mithraeum of Kunzing was an underground building, oriented east-west. The entrance was probably on the east.
Altar from Künzing by Valerius Magio
This fragmented monument bears an inscription of a certain veteran named Valerius Magio.
Inscription by Valentinus Secundionis
This monument, now lost, was discovered in the 16th century, probably on the site of Sublavio statio.
CIMRM 730
Head of dadophore from Fürth
This sandsotne head with a Phrygian, found in Fürth in 1730, probably belonged to a torach-bearer.
CIMRM 1000
Double-sided marble relief fragment from San Zeno
Fragment of a double-sided white marble Mithraic relief from San Zeno, found near the Castello di Tuenno, depicting elements of the tauroctony cycle and bearing a dedication to Deo Invicto Mithrae.
CIMRM 723
Mithraeum of Regensburg
The Mithraeum of Regensburg represents the earliest of the nine Mithraic sanctuaries so far documented in Bavaria, Germany.
Inscription "Deo Invicto Mithrae" from San Zeno, near Trento
A brief inscription reading "Deo Invicto Mithrae", found in the ruins of the Castello di Tuenno near San Zeno at the entry to the Tovel valley in Trentino, alongside the decorated relief No. 723.
CIMRM 724
Inscription of Marius from San Zeno di Romedio, near Trento
A fragmentary inscription on the lower border of the limestone tauroctony relief from San Zeno di Romedio near Trento, partially reading a dedication to the Invincible Mithras by Marius.
CIMRM 727
Limestone tauroctony relief from San Zeno di Romedio, near Trento
A limestone low-relief tauroctony fragment found in 1869 near the entrance of the valley of San Zeno di Romedio in the Trentino, now in the Museum at Trento, showing a primitive Mithras bullkiller with Cautes upraised, the bust of Luna and an inscription on the lower border.
CIMRM 726
Brothers attested in Rhaetia
Places in Rhaetia
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.
