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Shrines of Mithras

Mithraea, also known as temples, shrines, caves or spelaea, dedicated to Mithras and his cult.
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    Mitreo Aldobrandini

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

    TNMM42 – CIMRM 232

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    Mitreo di San Clemente

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

    TNMM13 – CIMRM 338

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    Mitreo del Circo Massimo

    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

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    Mithräum von Königsbrunn

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

    TNMM52

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    Mithraeum II of Ptuj

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

    TNMM187 – CIMRM 1509

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    Mithraeum III of Ptuj

    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

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    Mithraeum V of Ptuj

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

    TNMM565

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    Mitreo Barberini

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

    TNMM14 – CIMRM 389

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    Mithräum von Künzing

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

    TNMM357

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    Mithréum de La Bâtie-Montsaléon

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

    TNMM499

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    Mithréum de Bourg-Saint-Andéol

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

    TNMM62 – CIMRM 895

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    Mitreo della Piazza Dante

    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

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    Mithraeum of Inveresk

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

    TNMM331

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    Mithréum de Mackwiller

    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.

    TNMM68

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    Sabazeo

    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

    Fructus / suis in/pendis / consum/mavit
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    Mitreo di Lucrezio Menandro

    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

    Deo Invicto Mithrae / Diocles ob honorem / C. Lucreti Menandri / Patris / D(ono) D(edit) D(edicavit).
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    Mitreo Sacellum delle Tre Navate

    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.

    TNMM533

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    Mithraeum of Virunum

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

    TNMM401

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    Mithraeum of Caernarfon

    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

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    Mitreo di Santo Stefano Rotondo

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

    TNMM17

 
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