The New Mithraeum Database in Germany

In this relief of the rock birth of Mithras, the child sun god holds a bundle of wheat in his left hand instead of the usual torch.

TNMM728

This marble head of Mithras was found in the Luxemburgerstrasze in Cologne, Germany.

TNMM727 – CIMRM 1022

The Mithraeum I of Cologne is situated amid a block of buildings. It was impossible to narrowly determine its construction and lay-out.

TNMM352 – CIMRM 1018

The Mithraic vase from Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium in Germany includes Sol-Mithras between Cautes and Cautopates, as well as a serpent, a lion and seven stars.

TNMM378 – CIMRM 1020

This small monument without inscription was found in Bingem, Germany.

TNMM725 – CIMRM 1244

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

TNMM712 – CIMRM 1322

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

TNMM694 – CIMRM 1320

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

TNMM441 – CIMRM 1315

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

TNMM693 – CIMRM 1314

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

TNMM444 – CIMRM 1319

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

TNMM711 – CIMRM 1321

The few remains of the Mithraeum of Gimmeldingen are preserved at the Historical Museum of the Palatinate, in Speyer, Germany.

TNMM49 – CIMRM 1313

Gimmeldingen is a village, part of the town of Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Germany. Its origins, along with the village of Lobloch (which used to be connected), can be traced back to Roman settlements in 325 AD.

The provenance of this fragment of a white marble relief depicting Mithras as a bullkiller is unknown.

TNMM704 – CIMRM 13

This monument with an inscription to the god Sol Mithras was found in front of the cathedral of Speyer during some sewer works.

TNMM692 – CIMRM 1312

Speyer, historically known in English as Spires, is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany with approximately 50,000 inhabitants.

This sculpture of Mithras born from a rock was found in 1922 together with two altars in what was probably a mithraeum.

TNMM691 – CIMRM 1240

Marius Victor, according to the inscription on the monument, erected this monument to Mithras ’when Philip and Titianus were consuls’.

TNMM681 – CIMRM 1102

These two fragments of a sandstone relief were walled into a house on the market square in Besigheim.

TNMM679 – CIMRM 1301

The sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull found in Dormagen is exposed at Bonn Landesmuseum.

TNMM264 – CIMRM 1012, 1013