Mithraeum III at Heddernheim

Mithraeum III found N-W of the cemetery at Heddernheim in 1887 and completely excavated by G. Wolff in 1890. The finds are in Frankfurt, Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte. The Director Dr. Ulrich Fischer most kindly enabled me to study and photograph the monuments.Hameran-Möller-Zangemeister in WsdZ VI, 1887 (Korr. Bl.) 40ff, 86ff; Schaafhausen in JVA LXXXIV, 248; Wolf-Cumont in WsdZ XIII, 1894, 37ff; MMM II 372ff No. 253. See fig. 288 from Wolff.Mithraeum III is rectangular in construction (L. 10.55 Br. 5.50) and is situated three mtrs below ground level. The outer walls (D. 0.60) as well as the inner walls (D…