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Castle and Mithraeum of Zerzevan candidate to World Heritage

The Temple of Mithras, inside an ancient military settlement, is situated on the eastern border of the Roman Empire.

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Some places to visit

  • Mithréum de Septeuil

    In the second half of the 4th century, a Mithraic temple was established within an earlier spring sanctuary at Septeuil, where the cult of the nymphs and Mithraic practices appear to have coexisted.

     
  • Mithraeum VI of Aquincum

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

     
  • Mithraeum of Housesteads

    The Housesteads Mithraeum is an underground temple, now burried, discovered in 1822 in a slope of the Chapel Hill, outside of the Roman Fort at the Hadrian's Wall.

     
  • Mithräum I von Heddernheim

    First Mithraic sanctuary discovered at Heddernheim (ancient Nida) in 1826, with finds preserved in the Städtisches Museum at Wiesbaden.

     

Sententia

Guest insights

Milen Ivanov

Привет! Имам забележка за превода: For good fortune…

on Tauroctony from Nicopolis ad Istrum

 
 

Milen Ivanov

В египетски има дума heka което означава магия дори…

on A name older than Greece

 

Dominique PERSOONS

Vae tibi, qui sapientiam Magistri ignoras! Vere, ingenium Platonis in transpositione Babyloniorum…

on a post

 

The New Mithraeum

Oh well, all I had to do was ask, and now we can tag shires too! There we go: https://www.mithraeum…

on Tauroctony from Târgușor

 

Pattie L

There was an actual (charred) pinecone found in the floor at Carrawburgh. Understandably hard to tag…

on Tauroctony from Târgușor

 

Dominique PERSOONS

Deo invicto regi; to God the invincible King. According to some relics, "lying down" means sea or river. Neptune or Oceanus…

on Altar to Deo Invicto Regi from Bandorf

 

The New Mithraeum

Indeed: “In front of the altars lay a ritual hearth, fed with special fuel made from Mediterranean pinecones…

on Tauroctony from Târgușor

 
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