Mithréum de Septeuil

The remains correspond to a sanctuary built at the end of the 1st century AD or the beginning of the 2nd century. The building was first used as a spring sanctuary and then, from the 4th century onwards, as a mithraeum (a sanctuary dedicated to the oriental deity Mithras). It was finally abandoned in the last quarter of the 4th century.

In the second half of the 4th century, the building, which was being demolished, was redesigned. A partition physically separates the two rooms at the location of the gutter. The northern room was equipped with a fireplace along the western wall and was

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