The New Mithraeum Database

Mithraic Community for the English-speaking world.

The head of Mithras of Angers has been found a four months after the main relief.

Fragment of a silvered bronze plate from Mithraeum II at Stockstadt depicting Mithras grasping the bull for the kill

Fragmentary white sandstone altar from Mithraeum I at Stockstadt dedicated to Iupiter Dolichenus and Iuno Regina

Four plain sandstone altars without decoration or inscription from Mithraeum I at Stockstadt

Eleven sandstone balls from Mithraeum I at Stockstadt, of uncertain ritual function

Red sandstone altar from Mithraeum I at Stockstadt decorated with a jug on the right, a tree with a bird on the left, and partially reused for building

Fragment of a red sandstone relief from Mithraeum I at Stockstadt showing Hercules dragging a collared Cerberus from a cave while holding a club

The lion-headed statue of Hedderneheim is a reconstruction from fragments of two different sculptures.

Second Mithraic sanctuary discovered in 1826 some 150 metres west of Mithraeum I at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, with finds in the Wiesbaden museum.

First Mithraic sanctuary discovered at Heddernheim (ancient Nida) in 1826, with finds preserved in the Städtisches Museum at Wiesbaden.

This relief is so well-known that it has been reproduced in nearly every handbook of archaeology and of history of religions.

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