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Monumentum

Mithräum von Friedberg

There have probably been three mithraea discovered at Friedberg.
  • CIMRM 1052

    CIMRM 1052
    Vermaseren's Corpus

  • Cautes and Cautopates of Friedberg

    Cautes and Cautopates of Friedberg
    Carole Raddato

  • Fragmented altar from Friedberg

    Fragmented altar from Friedberg
    heidICON

  • Friedberg crater.

    Friedberg crater.
    Carole Raddato (CC BY-SA 2.0)

  • Friedberg crater.

    Friedberg crater.
    Carole Raddato (CC BY-SA 2.0)

 
The New Mithraeum
10 Jun 2009
Updated on Jan 2026
During excavations in the years 1849, 1881 and 1894 on the eastern slope of the town of Friedberg, a Mithraeum was found in the Grosse Klostergasse.

Ph. Dieffenbach in AHGA VI, 1851, 243 ff.; de Ring, Cautopates; G. Dieffenbach in KGV 1881, 73; Tagebuch VIII, 61 ff.; XVIII, 1 ff.; G. Wolff in KGV 1882, nos. 11–12; R. Schäfer in KGV 1881, 73 f. and 1883, 10; WsdZ (Korr.) 1882, 18 f. and 1883, 5; Goldmann in WsdZ (Korr.) 1894, 179 ff.; AHGA 1895, 275 ff.; MMM II, 354 ff. no. 248; Buchhold, Mus. Darmstadt, 31 ff.; Schmidt, Friedberg, 10 ff.; G. Blecker, Das Wetterauer Museum in Dreher-Blecker, Friedberg; Esp. Rec…

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Related monuments

Cautes and Cautopates of Friedberg

These two reliefs of Cautes and Cautopates where found in the south corner of one of the Mithraea of Friedberg, Hesse.

Altar of Gaius Iulius Crescens of Friedberg for Respectus

This fragmented altar of a certain Caius Iulius Crescens, found in the Mithraeum of Friedberg, bears an inscription to the Mother Goddesses.

CIMRM 1061

Terracotta krater from the southern part of the Friedberg Mithraeum, discovered in 1849. The vessel is decorated in relief with serpents, a scorpion and a ladder-like motif.

 
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