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The Cult Dossier · No. 008 · Ancient Mystery Cult
Mysteries of Mithras
Mithraism
c.80 – c.400 CE · Roman Empire — Rome, Ostia, the Rhine and Danube frontiers, Britain
I. ANTIQUITY — THE MYSTERY CULTS
Fully religious
### Who led it
### What it worshipped and taught
### Who was in it
### How it ended, or where it stands
### The dead
### Of note
### Its timeline
- c.80 CE First datable evidence in the Roman world.
- 2nd–3rd c. CE Peak: THE FIGURE PREVIOUSLY GIVEN HERE — ‘over 100 mithraea in Rome alone’ — CORRESPONDED TO NOTHING AND IS REPLACED. ONLY EIGHT MITHRAEA SURVIVE IN ROME. The estimated original total is far higher: Coarelli put it at AS MANY AS 700, with other estimates around 680–690, alongside some 300 further Mithraic monuments from the city. The old number was too high for what stands and an order of magnitude too low for what is thought to have existed; heavy legionary presence on the frontiers.
- c.240 CE London Mithraeum built beside the Walbrook.
- c.308 CE Diocletian, Galerius and Licinius dedicate an altar at Carnuntum to Mithras, protector of their empire.
- 4th c. CE Christian suppression; many mithraea deliberately desecrated, some with skeletons of priests found chained inside.
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