Shrines of Mithras

The Mithraeum of Aldobrandini was excavated in 1924 by G. Calza on the premises belonging to the Aldobrandini family.

TNMM42 – CIMRM 232

The Mithraeum under the Basilica of San Clemente made part of a notable Roman house.

TNMM13 – CIMRM 338

The Mithraeum of the Circus Maximus was discovered in 1931 during work carried out to create a storage area for the scenes and costumes of the Opera House within the Museums of Rome building.

TNMM15 – CIMRM 434

The Mithraeum of Koenigsbrunn is the only one preserved in the ancient Roman province of Rhaetia, current Bavaria.

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Mithraeum II was found at Ptuj at a distance of 20 m south of the Mithraeum I in 1901.

TNMM187 – CIMRM 1509

Mithraeum III in Ptuj was built in two periods: the original walls were made of pebbles, while the extension of a later period was made of brick.

TNMM60 – CIMRM 1578

Part of the finds from the fifth Mithraeum of Ptuj is kept in the Hotel Mitra in the modern city.

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The Barberini Mithraeum was discovered in 1936 in the garden of the Palazzo Barberini, owned by Conte A. Savorgnan di Brazza.

TNMM14 – CIMRM 389

The Mithraeum of Kunzing was an underground building, oriented east-west. The entrance was probably on the east.

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During the excavations of 1804-1805, a series of monuments dedicated to Mithras and a temple were discovered at ancient Mons Seleucus.

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The Mithréum de Bourg-Saint-Andéol was built against a rock where the main Tauroctony was chiseled.

TNMM62 – CIMRM 895

The Mithraeum located in Piazza Dante in Rome was discovered in 1874 along with a series of monuments dedicated by a Pater named Primus.

TNMM379 – CIMRM 349

The Mithraeum of Inveresk, south of Musselburgh, East Lothian, is the first found in Scotland, and the earliest securely dated example from Britain.

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The Mackwiller Mithraeum was built in the middle of the 2nd century, during the reign of Antoninus the Pious, on the site of a spring already worshipped by the natives.

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The Mithraeum was found in one of the rooms of the Horrea built in the years 120 - 125 AD. The installation of the shrine may have taken place in the first half of the third century.

TNMM10 – CIMRM 300, 301

The Mithraeum of Lucretius Menander was installed in the early 3rd century in an alley to the east of a Hadrianic building named after the solar god temple.

TNMM6 – CIMRM 224

The Mithraeum in the Chapel of the Three Naves was not linked to the cult of Mithras until recently because of a mosaic showing a pig, in the belief that it was an animal unfit for consumption in a temple of Eastern origin.

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A bronze plaque records the existence of a mithraeum at Virunum that collapsed and was rebuilt by members of the community.

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The Mithraeum of Caernarfon, in Walles, was built in three phases during the 3rd century, and destroyed at the end of the 4th.

TNMM77 – CIMRM 2374

The Mitreo dei Castra Peregrinorum was discovered under the church of Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rome.

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