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
Mithräum von Königsbrunn
The Mithraeum of Koenigsbrunn is the only one preserved in the ancient Roman province of Rhaetia, current Bavaria.
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 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
CIMRM 723
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.
Brothers active 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.
Sublavio
Waidbruck is a comune in South Tyrol in northern Italy, located about 20 kilometres northeast of Bolzano.
Inscriptions from Rhaetia
Altar from Künzing by Valerius Magio
Inscription by Valentinus Secundionis
CIMRM 723
References
- Andreas Wenleder (2026) Geheimer Männerkult: Mithras-Tempel in Regensburg entdeckt
- Arkeonews (2026) Ancient Roman Mithras Temple Discovered in Regensburg Old Town, Revealing Bavaria’s Oldest Mithraeum
- Karin Fegerl (2008) Archäozoologische Untersuchungen eines Fundkomplexes aus dem Tempelbezirk des Jupiter Heliopolitanus von Carnuntum
- Karin Fegerl (2008) Archäozoologische Untersuchungen eines Fundkomplexes aus dem Tempelbezirk des Jupiter Heliopolitanus von Carnuntum
- Rathaus Stadt Königsbrunn. Das Mithraeum ist bis auf Weiteres wegen der durch die Bayerische Staatskanzlei verordneten Corona-Regeln geschlossen
- Roger Pearse. CIMRM Supplement - Mithraeum. Künzing, Germany
- Bavaria’s oldest Mithras temple discovered in Regensburg
