Temples of Mithras

Although the site at Cerro de San Albín is not a Mithraeum, archaeologists have found several monuments related to the cult of Mithras.

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The Mitreo della crypta neapolitana was used a des legends about its use, from a cult place devoted to Priapus to celebrate Aphrodite.

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The Mithraeum of Schwarzerden, also know as Mithräum von Reichweiler, was carved on the rock.

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The Mithraeum of Els Munts, near Tarragona, is one of the largest known to date.

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In a house from the time of Constantine, a Lararium was found with a statue of Isis-Fortuna. The Mithraeum was a door next to it, on a lower room.

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The Mithraeum of Tazoult / Lambèse is one of the best preserved Mithras’s temples in Africa.

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A Mithraeum has been identified in Eleusis where the last Hierophant form thespia had the rank of Father in the Mithraic Mysteries.

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The most emblematic of the Syrian Mithraea was discovered in 1933 by a team led by the Russian historian Mikhaïl Rostovtzeff.

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An inscription mentioning a speleum decorated by Publilius Ceionius suggests the location of a mithraeum in Cirta, the capital of Numidia.

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The existence of a mithraeum in the "tana del lupo", a natural cave in the castle of Angera, has been assumed since the 19th century, following the discovery of two mithraic inscriptions in the town.

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A second Mithraeum was found in Cologne described by R. L. Grodon as of ’small importance’.

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The Mithraeum of Symphorus and Marcus, in Óbuda, Budapest, has been restored to public view in 2004 and, while well presented, it has been heavily restored.

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Two Mithras sanctuaries, which were located on the edge of the settlement, were excavated in Güglingen.

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The Mithraeum of Cabra is located in the Villa del Mitra, which owes its name to the discovery in 1951 of a Mithras tauroctonus in the remains of the Roman villa.

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To date, there is no evidence that the so-called Mithraeum of Burham was ever used to worship the sun god.

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The Mithraea in the territory of Arupium were first mentioned by Š. Ljubić in 1882.

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The Mithraeum of Ponza was discovered in 1866. It contained the remains of a zodiac investigated by Vermaseren in 1989.

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The Sárkeszi mithraeum is unusual for its large dimensions and its semicircular eastern wall.

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The Trier Mithräum was discovered during work on the city’s new fire station. The findings included a Cautes limestone relief.

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The two altars found in the Mithraeum of Mundelsheim one of Sol and the other of Luna, are exposed in situ.

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