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Nida

Nida was an ancient Roman town in the area today occupied by the northwestern suburbs of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, specifically Frankfurt-Heddernheim, on the edge of the Wetterau region.

Mithraic monuments of Nida

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Inscriptions from Nida

Altar with Mithras rock-birth of Nida

D[eo] inv[icto] Mit[hrae] / Senilius Car/antinus / c[ivis] Medio/m[atricus]
V[otum] s[olvit] l[ibens] l[aetus] m[erito] / Sive Cracissiu[s]. // P[etram] genetricem.
To the invincible god Mithras, Senilius Carantinus, also named Cracissius, citizen of Mediomatricus, dedicated willingly, gladly and deservedly following a vow these images of Cautes, of the generative rock, of Cautopates, and of the Heaven and Ocean.

Altar of Murius Victor from Frankfurt

I[n] h[onorem] d[omus] d[iviuae] / d[eo] i[nvicto] Mithrae / Murius Victor / aedilis c[oloniae] T[aunensium] ex v[oto].

[Pos[uit] ded[it]] q[ue] / [d. n. Phi]l[ippo et] Ti/[tiano] co[n]s[ulibus].
In honor of the Divine House, to the Unconquered God Mithras, Murius Victor, aedile of the Colony of the Taunensians, [set this up] in fulfillment of a vow.

[He] placed [and] gave [this altar] when our lords Philip and Titianus were consuls.

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