The New Mithraeum Database

The iconography of the platter of Ladenburg might evoke the food consumed during Mithraic banquets.

Peter Mark Adams: ‘The initiation was a frightening experience that caused some people to panic as a flood of otherworldly entities swept through the ritual space.’.

Fragment of a limestone relief (H. 0.30 Br. 0.40 D. 0.09).

Altar (H. 1.25 Br. 0.46).

Inscr.

Marble statue (H. 1.48).

Marble statue (H. 1.58).

Marble statuette (H. 0.52), found in 1902.

It is not excluded, that a torso of a man (H. 0.24) of marble from Luna represents a torchbearer.

A person in red attire.

Marble stele (H. 0.88 Br. 0.50), found at Amasia.

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

Reliefs of Cautes and Cautopates dedicated by Florius Florentius of Saalburg and Ancarinius Severus.

This plaque was found in Mithraeum I at Stockstadt broken into pieces inserted between the blocks of the socle of the cult relief, in the manner of a votive deposit.

The Stockstadt Raven is one of only two standing-alone sculptures of this bird to be found in Mithraic statuary.

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

The Mithraic sword found in the Riegel Mithraeum may have been used as a prop during rituals.