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Mithräum von Gimmeldingen

The few remains of the Mithraeum of Gimmeldingen are preserved at the Historical Museum of the Palatinate, in Speyer, Germany.
  • Stone monuments from the Mithras sanctuary in Gimmeldingen

    Stone monuments from the Mithras sanctuary in Gimmeldingen
    Haselburg-Müller 

  • Reproducción del relieve del Mitreo de Gimmeldingen

    Reproducción del relieve del Mitreo de Gimmeldingen
    Mundartpoet 

  • Incriptio of Corax from Gimmeldingen

    Incriptio of Corax from Gimmeldingen
    Haselburg-Müller 

  • Altar of Gimmeldingen

    Altar of Gimmeldingen
    The New Mithraeum / Andreu Abuín (CC BY-SA) 

  • Tauroctony of Gimmeldingen

    Tauroctony of Gimmeldingen
    Mundartpoet 

  • Altar of Faustinus from Gimmeldingen

    Altar of Faustinus from Gimmeldingen
    Lupa.at / Ortolf Harl 

  • Altar to Luna from Gimmeldingen

    Altar to Luna from Gimmeldingen
    Ortolf Harl 

  • Fragmented altar with inscription from Gimmeldingen

    Fragmented altar with inscription from Gimmeldingen
    Ortolf Harl 

 
 
The New Mithraeum
2 Jun 2009
Updated on Oct 2023
 

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The St. Nicholas Church was on the premises a Mithras sanctuary from the Roman period, 325 AD. It have been built by the Roman Materninius Faustinus. In 1926, the building foundation walls and a stone relief image were found.

At Gimmeldingen in the Pfalz a Mithraeum was excavated in 1926. It is situated in the immediate neighbourhood of the ruins of a Gothic chapel in a steep slope between the Oberweg and the Loblocherstrasze. The finds are at Speyer, Historisches Museum der Pfalz. Im am grateful to Dr. Roller for his permission to take photographs of the monuments and for his information.

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Inscription of Corax Materninius Faustinus of Gimmeldingen

The inscription was located at the base of the main Tauroctony of the Gimmeldingen Mithraeum.

Altar of Faustinus from Gimmeldingen

Corax Materninius Faustinus dedicated other monuments found in the same Mithraeum in Gimmeldingen.

Tauroctony of Gimmeldingen

This relief of Mithras killing the bull found in Gimmeldingen, Germany, lacks the usual raven.

Altar of Faustinus from Gimmeldingen

This sandstone altar was dedicated to the god Invictus by a certain Faustinus from Gimmeldingen.

 

Altar to Luna from Gimmeldingen

This sandstone altar was dedicated to Luna, who is mentioned as a male deity.

Fragments of altars from Gimmeldingen

These fragmentary monuments, one with an inscription, were found in the Gimmeldingen mithraeum.