The New Mithraeum Database

La Bâtie-Montsaléon is a commune in the Hautes-Alpes department in southeastern France. It is notable for being the location of the Battle of Mons Seleucus in 353, when Constantius II defeated the usurper Magnentius.

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

TNMM499

Lifelong pater of Mithras in Anazarbus, holding the civic title Father of the Homeland.

This damaged relief of Mithras killing the bull found in 1804 and formerly exposed at Gap, is now lost.

TNMM500 – CIMRM 898, 899

Slave who dedicated to Mithras ten drinking vessels at Mons Seleucus.

Has dedicated to Mithras a relief of the Tauroctony in Mons Seleucus.

King of the Greco-Iranian Kingdom of Commagene.

This dedicatory inscription by Aurelius Seleucus, found in Cilicia, aligns with Plutarch’s account of Cilician pirates performing foreign sacrifices and secret rites of Mithras.

TNMM800 – CIMRM 27