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Mithraeum at Vulci

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).

Last modified Jul 28, 2023 04:29 PM — History

tags: Mithras, Temple, extant remains

A mithraeum was discovered at Vulci in 1975 during excavations of a Roman aristocratic house. The shrine was well preserved with two tauroctony scenes dating to the third century. The site was destroyed in the fourth century A.D.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570500583

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
42.4193601406, 11.6302872607

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- OSM location of Mithraeum (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

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Place type:
sanctuary (religious center)

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Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Mithraeum at Vulci: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570500583> [accessed: 19 April 2024]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570500583 |title=Places: 570500583 (Mithraeum at Vulci) |author=Becker, J., T. Elliott |accessdate=April 19, 2024 1:56 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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