Tauroctony relief from Rückingen

A Mithrasrelief found at Rückingen near Hanau at a distance of about 200 mtrs N-W of the north-west corner of the Roman Camp in 1950 proves the existence of a Mithraeum at the end of the second and in the beginning of the third century A.D.Birkner in Germania XXX, 1952, 349ff. The finds are in Schlosz Philippsruhe at Hanau and belong to the Hanauer Geschichtsverein. I commemorate in gratitude the late director H. Birkner and Mr H. Kroegel who forwarded the photographs.The sanctuary itself was not found back, but on the site of discovery of the cultrelief a pit (Br. 0.70–0.95 D. 1…