Shrines of Mithras

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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The site of Orbe-Boscéaz, Switzerland, also known as Boscéay, is renowned for its mosaics and mithraic temple.

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Mount Nemrut or Nemrud is one of the highest peaks in the eastern Taurus Mountains, southeastern Turkey. On its summit large statues stand around what is supposed to be a royal tomb from the 1st century BC.

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There are references to two places of worship from Dieburg, whereby the Mithraeum, discovered in 1926.

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A sixth temple dedicated to Mithras has been identified for the first time in the military sector of the ancient Roman city of Aquincum.

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This temple of Mithras in Aquincum was located within the private house of the decurio Marcus Antonius Victorinus.

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Archaeologists discovered the 20th temple dedicated to Mithras in Ostia during the restoration of the domus del capitello di stucco in 2022.

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Mithraeum I in Güglingen, Landkreis Heilbronn (Baden-Württemberg).

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The Mithraeum I of Ptuj contains the foundation, altars, reliefs and cult imagery found in it.

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A statue and a relief of Cautes have been found in an ancient Gallo-Roman site in the commune of Dyo.

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The Mithraeum I of Cologne is situated amid a block of buildings. It was impossible to narrowly determine its construction and lay-out.

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The Mithraeum of the House of Diana was installed in two Antonine halls, northeast corner of the House of Diana, in the late 2nd or early 3rd century.

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The few remains of the Mithraeum of Gimmeldingen are preserved at the Historical Museum of the Palatinate, in Speyer, Germany.

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The remains of the Jajački Mithraeum were discovered accidentally during excavation for the construction of a private house in 1931.

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According to F. Cumont, the Bedouins told a legend from which Nöldeke concluded that the castle of Quasr-ibn-Wardân was a fort with a mithraeum.

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