The New Mithraeum Database

The Mithraeum of Slaveni was discovered in 1837 on the right bank of the river Olt, in Romanati district.

Egyptologist with interest in the religion of Roman Egypt.

Those initiated into the Mithraic cult were called upon to climb up to seven symbolic rungs of the ladder ultimately leading to the rank of Pater.

A first distinction can be made between the rituals of the Mithraic cult. The initiates commemorate the sacrifice of the Bull followed by the sacred banquet. In addition, there is a set of initiatory practices aimed at the incorporation and progression of members into the community…

A bronze votive slab (Br. 0.12), found at Heiligkreuz in a hill and in the neigh- bourhood of a well.

At about 20 mtrs from the Mithraeum, two altars, dedicated to Sucellus and Nantosvelta, have been found (Michaelis, 154ff; S. Reinach in Revue celtique, XVII, 1896, 45ff; Keune in WsdZ 1896, 340f; Fisenne, 168ff).

elL XIII 4451; MMM II No.

Two female heads (H. 0.165 Br. 0.14 D.O.12; H. 0.13 Br. 0.085 D. 0.09).

Fragment (H. 0.75 Br. 0.15 D. 0.12) of a standing, naked man with a bird (cock?) on his 1.

Altar in Lucey.

CIL XII 1003; MMM II No.

Cippus litteris non bonis saeculi secundi vel exeuntis tertii.

Ara parva.

Marble fragment with an inscription in a tabula ansata (ILN 1954, 636).

Marble head of a woman (H. 12 ins.), originally crowned with a diadem (ILN, 542; 636).

Fragment of a circular plaque showing the Danubian horsemen and leaping dogs (ILN, 542).

Altar "in colle oppido imminenti exarata in rupe orienti opposita" at Badalona.

Square stone from La Oliva.

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