Brothers active in Nida
Mithraic monuments of Nida
Cautopates with a hooked stick of Nida
This Cautopates from Nida carries the usual downward torch in his right hand and a hooked stick in his left.
CIMRM 1110
Tauroctony from the Mithräum von Heddernheim
This relief is so well-known that it has been reproduced in nearly every handbook of archaeology and of history of religions.
CIMRM 1083
Aion of Hedderneheim
The lion-headed statue of Hedderneheim is a reconstruction from fragments of two different sculptures.
CIMRM 1138
Aion from Nida
This lion-headed figure from Nida, present-day Frankfurt-Heddernheim, holds a key and a shovel in his hands.
Altar with Mithras rock-birth of Nida
The Mithraic stele from Nida depicts the Mithras Petrogenesis and the gods Cautes, Cautopates, Heaven and Ocean.
CIMRM 1127
Key of Mithraeum III at Nida
The key of Nida's Mithraeum III was decorated with a lion's head.
CIMRM 1115
Tauroctony from the Mithraeum III of Nida
The relief of Mithras slaying the bull from Nida's Mithraeum III was found in two pieces in 1887, destroyed during an air raid on Frankfurt in 1944, and restored in 1986.
CIMRM 1118
Cautes and Cautopates from Mithraeum III of Heddernheim
The two companions of Mithras carry a torch and a shepherd's staff at the third Mithraeum in Frankfurt-Heddernheim, formerly Nida.
CIMRM 1119
Altar of Murius Victor from Frankfurt
Marius Victor, according to the inscription on the monument, erected this monument to Mithras ’when Philip and Titianus were consuls’.
CIMRM 1102
Petrogeny with hand on head from Nida
This sculpture of Mithras being born from a rock is unique in the position of the hands, one on his head, the other on the rock.
CIMRM 1111
Inscriptions of Nida
V(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) l(aetus) m(erito) / Sive Cracissiu[s]. // P(etram) genetricem.
Altar with Mithras rock-birth of Nida
[Pos(uit) ded(it)] q(ue) / [d. n. Phi]l[ippo et] Ti/[tiano] co(n)s(ulibus).
[He] placed [and] gave [this altar] when our lords Philip and Titianus were consuls.
References
- Bricault, Veymers, Amoroso et al. (2021) The Mystery of Mithras. Exploring the heart of a Roman cult
- Epigraphic Database Heidelberg. Altar of Murius Victor from Frankfurt in EDH
- Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss / Slaby. Altar of Murius Victor from Frankfurt in EDCS
- I. Huld-Zetsche (1994) NIDA - Eine römische Stadt in Frankfurt am Main (Aalen) 126 Ill. 92
- Relief mit Leo — Arachne