IMMURIUM
(Moosham) Austria.
A vicus in
Lungau not far from present-day Mauterndorf, 110 km
S-SE of Salzburg and 1100 m above sea level. It was in
the Noricum province and part of the territorium of
Teurnia (St. Peter in Holz). Mentioned in the
Peutinger
Table, it was a mansio on the road from Virunum
(Zollfeld) to luvavum (Salzburg), established at the time
the road was built in the early Imperial period. It was
important economically for the mining and working of
iron.
The settlement was not disturbed by the Marcomannic
assaults in Marcus Aurelius' reign. In A.D. 201, when a
new road was built from Teurnia to Immurium, the vicus
became a crossroads statio. About 275 it was at least
partially destroyed by the Alemanni. There is no evidence that the city was finally destroyed in late antiquity,
but it seems instead to have been abandoned earlier by its
inhabitants.
In 1950 a Mithraeum, probably dating from the early
3d c. A.D., was found. Excavations (1964-70) have uncovered the following: mansio I with two separate buildings and courtyard; a large house with bronze foundry;
a bath building with apodyterium, caldarium, tepidarium,
frigidarium; houses, some poorly preserved; a large house
with wall paintings, with a sepulcher for multiple burials
added; mansio II with inner courtyard. The finds are in
the Museum Tamsweg.
Recently, remains of houses of the 1st and 2d c. A.D.
have been excavated in Steindorf, 1.5 km N of Immurium.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
M. Hell, “Das Mithräum von Moosham
im Salzburger Lungau,”
Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft
für Salzburger Landeskunde 105 (1965) 91ff
I; R. Fleischer, “Immurium-Moosham. Die Grabungen 1964 und
1965,”
ÖJh 47 (1964-65) 105ff
MPI; 48 (1966-67)
165ff
MPI; 49 (1968-71) 177ff
MPI; id., “Die Grabung in
Steindorf 1971.”
ÖJh 49 (1968-71) 23Sff
MPI.
R. FLEISCHER
