The decline of Mithraism in the fourth century AD is used as a
case-study for understanding the end of other classes of paganism'
in the Roman western provinces. The author reviews epigraphic and
numismatic evidence to date the final uses of Mithraea. He then
discusses examples of wilful damage to Mithraic monuments. Drawing
all this archaeological evidence into a historical framework, Sauer
argues that rather than losing its social function as the Roman
army became splintered, Mithraism was a healthy religion with
active shrines until the very late fourth century. Rather than
fading away, its desecrated monuments indicate that the religion
was the victim of a sustained Christian attack which was also
directed at other established faiths in the western provinces.
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