Konjic Mithraeum

The Konjic Mithraeum is a Roman temple dedicated to the god Mithra, discovered in January 1897 at the banks of the Tresanica River near Konjic, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Active from the 2nd to the late 4th century AD based on numismatic evidence, the temple is atypical among mithraea as it was built at ground level in a forest clearing rather than in a cave or underground setting. Its principal artifact is a two-sided grey limestone relief (59 x 82.5 cm) depicting the tauroctony on one side and a ritual communion meal on the other, now in the Sarajevo Archaeological Museum. Sacrificial animal bones and coins of various Roman emperors were also found at the site.