Shrines of Mithras

The name of this domus comes from the fact that some authors once associated one of its mosaics with the cult of Mithras, a connection that has since been dismissed.

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

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Jaime Alvar speculates that the Gran Mitreo de Mérida could have been located in this area, based on a series of materials unearthed by Mélida during the excavations of 1926 and 1927.

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The Mithraeum at Espronceda Street, in Merida, was discovered in 2000. It is a semi-subterranean temple.

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The Mithraeum of Saara, Syria, has been identified through the deciphering of the remains of the iconographic programme on its arch.

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Mithras and other oriental gods were worshipped in the shrine of Zeus near the Villa of the Quintilians in Rome.

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This Mithraic temple, also known as the Mithraeum of the Olympii, dates to the 3rd century and was rediscovered in 15th-century Rome, but it has not been preserved.

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The Niasar Cave, غار نیاسر, was a temple probably devoted to Iranian Mithras that dates back to the early Partian era.

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There is no solid evidences of the finding of a Mithraic temple in Duhok, Iraq.

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The exploration of an old pazo, a manor house, near the Roman wall, in Lugo, led to the discovery of a Roman domus, which existed continuously from the beginnings of the Christian Era until the Late Empire.

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Many of the inscriptions and sculptures of the site were kept in a museum which has been destroyed.

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On the Aventine, between the Eastern side of S. Saba’s and the Via Salvator, there is a Roman building, which probably was used as a Mithraeum in the end of the 4th century.

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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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The Mithraeum of London, also known as the Walbrook Mithraeum, was contextualised and relocated to its original site in 2016.

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The Mithraeum of Visentium, near Capodimonte in Viterbo, was carved grotto-style into a tuff cliff overlooking the waters of Lake Bolsena, just a few dozen metres away.

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The Mithraeum of Sutri was built inside a rocky hill that also hosted the Roman theatre of the city.

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The Mithraeum was inserted into the basement of the basilica-theater by the 3rd century.

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The Mithraeum was housed in a cave. The vault is almost dome-shaped and in front of the cave there is enough space for a possible adjacent temple.

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