The Mithraic material documented in Raetia reflects the province’s strategic position between the upper Danube, the Alps and northern Italy. The evidence illustrates the circulation of Mithraic practices through military installations, frontier infrastructure and regional communication routes.
Mithraic monuments of Rhaetia
Mithraeum of Regensburg
The Mithraeum of Regensburg represents the earliest of the nine Mithraic sanctuaries so far documented in Bavaria, Germany.
Tauroctony from Mauls
The relief of Mithras slaying the bull at Mauls in Gallia cisalpina is a paradigmatic example of the so-called Rhine-type Tauroctony.
CIMRM 1400
Mithräum von Königsbrunn
The Mithraeum of Koenigsbrunn is the only one preserved in the ancient Roman province of Rhaetia, current Bavaria.
Mithräum von Künzing
The Mithraeum of Kunzing was an underground building, oriented east-west. The entrance was probably on the east.
Double-sided marble relief fragment from San Zeno
Fragment of a double-sided white marble Mithraic relief from San Zeno, found near the Castello di Tuenno, depicting elements of the tauroctony cycle and bearing a dedication to Deo Invicto Mithrae.
CIMRM 723
Altar from Künzing by Valerius Magio
This fragmented monument bears an inscription of a certain veteran named Valerius Magio.
Inscription of Marius from San Zeno di Romedio, near Trento
A fragmentary inscription on the lower border of the limestone tauroctony relief from San Zeno di Romedio near Trento, partially reading a dedication to the Invincible Mithras by Marius.
CIMRM 727
Inscription "Deo Invicto Mithrae" from San Zeno, near Trento
A brief inscription reading "Deo Invicto Mithrae", found in the ruins of the Castello di Tuenno near San Zeno at the entry to the Tovel valley in Trentino, alongside the decorated relief No. 723.
CIMRM 724
Possible Mithraeum remains from San Zeno, near Trento
Wall remnants found deep underground at San Zeno near Trento, possibly indicating a Mithraeum, discovered alongside Roman coins, lost bronze figures and a small gold disc decorated with an ear of corn or a sword.
CIMRM 728
Tauroctony relief fragment from San Zeno am Nonsberg, Trentino
A coarse-grained yellowish-white marble tauroctony relief fragment found walled in at San Zeno am Nonsberg in the Trentino in 1911, now in the Museum Ferdinandeum at Innsbruck, showing part of Mithras slaying the bull and Cautes raising a flaming torch.
CIMRM 725
Limestone tauroctony relief from San Zeno di Romedio, near Trento
A limestone low-relief tauroctony fragment found in 1869 near the entrance of the valley of San Zeno di Romedio in the Trentino, now in the Museum at Trento, showing a primitive Mithras bullkiller with Cautes upraised, the bust of Luna and an inscription on the lower border.
CIMRM 726
People attested in Rhaetia
Provinces of Rhaetia
Rhaetia
Rhaetia occupied a strategic frontier position between the Alps, the upper Danube and northern Italy where Mithraic cults circulated through military networks.
Places in Rhaetia
Castra Regina
Regensburg is a city in eastern Bavaria, at the confluence of the rivers Danube, Naab and Regen, Danube's northernmost point.
San Zeno
San Zeno is a locality near Tuenno in the Val di Non, where Mithraic material attributed to Roman Raetia was discovered.
