In Roman times, Camporosso was home to a customs station located on the way that connected Aquileia and Noricum, roughly corresponding to today’s Austria. Numerous archaeological findings now kept in this Antiquarium show the importance of this site.
The most interesting part of this collection is about Mithras, the ancient and mysterious god of light to whom a specific place of worship was dedicated at the time of the Roman Empire. This wealth of findings is organized to best inform and educate, so one may get a sense of how the cult of Mithras spread in this area as well as of its iconographic and cult related aspects. Numerous inscriptions shed light on the organization and history of the ancient customs station; there are also very interesting sculpture findings, including a monument depicting the birth of Mithras from a rock, a statuette of Mitras’ companion Cautopates and a remarkable bronze bust of Selene, Goddess of the Moon.
