The New Mithraeum Database

Animal bones, principally of birds, found in pit g at Mithraeum III, Heddernheim, ancient Nida, evidence of ritual feasting

Assemblage of lamps, keys, torches, an iron knife, pottery, glass fragments, and five coins from Mithraeum III at Heddernheim, ancient Nida

Fragments of a white marble arched tauroctony from Mithraeum III at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, showing Mithras killing the bull in a leaf wreath

Three basalt fragments of a standing figure in jack-boots from Mithraeum III at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, with traces of red paint on the loin-cloth

Two basalt altars set into the corners of the west podium at Mithraeum III, Heddernheim, ancient Nida, one now lost

Two stone relief heads of torchbearers in Phrygian caps, from Mithraeum II at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, with traces of Mithras's mantle

Assemblage of cult refuse from shaft M at Mithraeum I, Heddernheim, ancient Nida, including pottery, bones, a boar's tooth, and a bronze ring with Mercury

Large circular iron pan with handle from Mithraeum I at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, likely used in Mithraic ritual feasting

Basalt relief from Mithraeum I at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, featuring a depiction of the goddess Epona, found in a Mithraic context

Sandstone relief preserving parts of Mithras, the dog and Cautopates from a lost third Mithraeum at Friedberg.

Marble relief fragment showing Mithras slaying the bull, originally belonging to a lost second Mithraeum at Friedberg.

Ritual coin deposits beneath sanctuary bases helping date the Mithraeum to the late second century A.D.

Sandstone altar decorated with ritual vessels and the hooked staff associated with Roman beneficiarii.

Sandstone altar from the cella decorated with a knife and axe and originally placed on one of the sanctuary bases.

Lost sandstone altar or base decorated with a Phrygian cap from the speleum of the Friedberg Mithraeum.

Small marble relief of Mithras slaying the bull within a wreath decorated with zodiac signs.

Elongated cult building near the Saalburg fort traditionally interpreted as a Mithraeum but later reconsidered as a possible funerary enclosure.

Fragmentary inscription possibly connected to Sol or Mithras, though attribution remains uncertain.

Assemblage of altars, lamps, coins and ritual objects discovered in the sanctuary.

Group of altars and a base indicating the existence of a Mithraeum near the Roman camp of Vetera.