Ritual cups and coins from Mithraeum II, Stockstadt

In the niche under the floor four small, brown, painted cups came to light which had been placed in a row at equal distances. Each of them was accurately encircled by stones. One of them was still covered well and contained a small piece of sulphur.Three coins (Augustus, Hadrianus, Antoninus Pius) and some other small finds were found.We have probably to do with a building sacrifice and so the Mithraeum can be placed in the second half of the second century. Later on it was destroyed by fire and used as a rubbish pit as is shown by the pottery (Schleiermacher, 49).