Mithraic monuments of Durnomagus
Mithräum von Dormagen
Workman digging in a field near Dormagen found a vault. Against one of the walls were found two monuments related to Mithras.
Tauroctony of Dormagen
The sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull found in Dormagen is exposed at Bonn Landesmuseum.
CIMRM 1012
Fragmented tauroctony of Dormagen
This second tauroctony, found in the Mithraeum of Dormagen, was consecrated by a man of Thracian origin.
CIMRM 1014
Inscriptions of Durnomagus
Deo Soli i(nvicto) M(ithrae) p(ro) s(alute) i(mperatoris) Suran l(ibertus) dupl(icarius) ale Noricorum ci(vis) Trax v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito).
D(eo) S(oli) i(nvicto) imp(erio) C. Amandinius / Verus buc(inator) v(otum) l(ibens) l(aetus) m(erito).
Under the command of the Unconquered Sun God, C. Amandinius Verus, the trumpeter, willingly, gladly, and deservedly fulfils his vow.
Deo Soli I(nvicto) M(ithrae) p(ro) s(alute) Th(?)urat(?)r(?)[al]is Didil[ae f(ilius)] / dup[l(arius)] al(a)e Noricorum ci[vis T(h)rax v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito)]
References
- Dorow, Wilhelm
- Fiedler, F
- Stark, Karl B
- David Ulansey (1991) The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries. Cosmology & Salvation in the Ancient World
- Jost Auler. Archäologische Ausgrabungen in Dormagen
- Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss / Slaby. Tauroctony of Dormagen in EDCS
- Epigraphic Database Heidelberg. Fragmented tauroctony of Dormagen in EDH
- Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss / Slaby. Fragmented tauroctony of Dormagen in EDCS