This site uses cookies to offer you a better browsing experience.
Find out more on how we use cookies in our privacy policy.

 
 

Log in to access the full database of The New Mithraeum.

Quaere

The New Mithraeum Database in Germany

Find news, articles, monuments, persons, books and videos related to the Cult of Mithras found or located in Germany.

Your selection Germany gave 150 results.

  • Monumentum

    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.

    TNMM646 – CIMRM 1066

    Matron/is / C(aius) Iul(ius) Cresce/nis (sic) pro / Respecto / v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) l(aetus) m(erito).
  • Mithraeum

    Mithräum von Friedberg

    There have probably been three mithraea discovered at Friedberg.

    TNMM87

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony relief from Ladenburg

    The Tauroctony from Landerburg, Germany, shows a naked Mithras only accompanied by his fellow Cautes.

    TNMM290 – CIMRM 1275

  • Mithraeum

    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.

    TNMM91

    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).
  • Monumentum

    Fragmented tauroctony of Dormagen

    This second tauroctony, found in the Mithraeum of Dormagen, was consecrated by a man of Thracian origin.

    TNMM633 – CIMRM 1014, 1015

    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)]
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony medallion of Egypt

    This tauroctony may have come from Hermopolis and its style suggests a Thraco-Danubian origin.

    TNMM431 – CIMRM 105

    ZANDYS
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Mithras and Tellus

    This relief of Mithras slaying the bull is unique because of the representation of Tellus lying under the bull.

    TNMM623 – CIMRM 598

  • Monumentum

    Mercury of Groß-Gerau

    The statue was dedicated to Mercury Quillenius, an epithet used to refer to a Celtic god or the Greek Kulúvios.

    TNMM618

    Mercurio / Quillenio A(ulus) / Ibliomarius / Placidus nego(otiator) / cas(tello) Mat(tiacorum) lanius / v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) l(aetus) m(erito).
  • Monumentum

    Mercury of Stockstadt

    The Stockstadt Mercury carries a purse and a small child around which a snake is coiled.

    TNMM418

  • Mithraeum

    Mithräum von Groß-Gerau

    In the Mithraeum of Gross Gerau, discovered in 1989, a statue of Mercury, a lion and an altar were found.

    TNMM617

  • Locus

    Groß-Gerau

    Groß-Gerau is the district seat of the Groß-Gerau district, lying in the southern Frankfurt Rhein-Main Region in Hesse, Germany, and serving as a hub for the surrounding area.
  • Monumentum

    Cautopates with a hooked stick of Nida

    This Cautopates from Nida carries the usual downward torch in his right hand and a hooked stick in his left.

    TNMM105 – CIMRM 1110

  • Monumentum

    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.

    TNMM593 – CIMRM 1055, 1056

    D(eo) I(nvicto) M(ithrae) / Cautopati
  • Locus

    Taunum

    Friedberg; official name: Friedberg is a town and the capital of the Wetteraukreis district, in Hesse, Germany.
  • Mithraeum

    Mithräum von Saalburg

    In the 1900s a model Mithraeum was built in Saalburg in the mistaken belief that there was an original temple of Mithras in an ancient Roman building.

    TNMM95

  • Mithraeum

    Mithraea of Heddernheim

    Since 1826, four mithraea have been found at Nida-Heddernheim.

    TNMM197

  • Monumentum

    Key of Mithraeum III at Nida

    The key of Nida's Mithraeum III was decorated with a lion's head.

    TNMM406 – CIMRM 1115

  • Monumentum

    Altar with Inscription to Mithras of Rottenburg

    This monument was erected by a certain Publius Aelius Vocco, a solider of the Legio XXII Primigenia Pia Fidelis stationed in Mainz.

    TNMM562 – CIMRM 1308

    Invicto / Mithrae / P. Ael(ius) Voc/co mil(es) l(egionis) XXII / p(rimigeniae) p(iae) f(idelis) v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) l(aetus) / m(erito).
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Neuenheim

    The Tauroctony relief of Neuenheim, Heidelberg, includes several scenes from the deeds of Mithras and other gods.

    TNMM205 – CIMRM 1283

  • Monumentum

    Mithras riding a horse from Neuenheim

    Mithras galloping, in a cypress forest, carrying a globe in one hand and accompanied by a lion and a snake.

    TNMM177 – CIMRM 1289

 
Back to Top