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Mithraeum

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Mith·rae·um or mith·rae·um  (mthr-m)
n. pl. Mith·rae·a or mith·rae·a (-r-)
An often subterranean or semisubterranean temple dedicated to the worship of Mithras.

[New Latin, from Greek Mithraion, from Mithrs, Mithras; see Mithras.]


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Nearby is the Mithraeum, which had been buried for more than 1,600 years before being discovered in 1949.
It is odd, however, that Mullen should express surprise at the similarities in architectural and art forms between this church and the mithraeum and synagogue found at the same site: all three buildings were, after all, built for the adherents of religions that followed essentially similar forms of communal worship, while at this stage in its development Christianity was still seeking an appropriate and exclusive iconography.
The three in Part 5 relate to the Greco-Roman world: one on theurgy, two on Apuleius in relation to realia, and an Ostian Mithraeum.
 
 
 
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