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The New Mithraeum Database

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Bonna (Bonn)

Bonna occupied a strategic position on the Rhine frontier and hosted an important legionary presence.

Monumentum

Torchbearer relief from Narbonne

This heavily damaged relief from Narbo preserves the figure of a cross-legged Mithraic torchbearer carved in low relief near the church of Saint-Sébastien in Narbonne.

Monumentum

Inscribed relief fragment from Bonna

Sandstone relief fragment with a cup above an inscription panel, probably from a Mithraic monument.

Monumentum

Torchbearer statuette from Bonna

Fragmentary limestone statuette of a cross-legged torchbearer originally attached to a tauroctony relief.

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Tauroctony from Dormagen

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

Monumentum

Knife or dagger handle from Narbonne

Bronze handle of a knife or dagger reportedly originating from Narbo and formerly preserved in major private collections.

Monumentum

Red ware dish fragment with tauroctony from Rome

Fragment of a red ware dish from Rome, now in the Akademisches Kunstmuseum at Bonn, with a representation of Mithras as a bull-killer sitting astride the bull with a flying cloak.

Locus

Narbo (Narbonne)

Narbonne rboː]; Late Latin: Narbona is a commune and subprefecture in Southern France, located in the Occitania region.

Monumentum

Altar by Paterna from Rheder

A votive altar dedicated to Deus Invictus Mithras by Paterna, among the few women explicitly associated with Mithraic worship.

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Relief of Cautopates leaning on a column

Fragmentary limestone relief showing the torchbearer Cautopates with a pedum.

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Relief of Cautopates from Bonna

Limestone relief fragment showing Cautopates beside traces of a tauroctony scene.

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Flame-shaped cult object from Bonna

Unusual sculptural representation of stylised flames mounted on a pedestal.

Monumentum

Votive inscription of Lucius Candidinius Verus

Mithraic dedication by Lucius Candidinius Verus from Bonna.

Monumentum

Altar to Deo Invicto Regi from Bandorf

A small limestone altar from Bandorf near Oberwinter dedicated to Deo Invicto Regi. Found in an isolated structure not resembling a mithraeum, its function remains uncertain.

Monumentum

Altar of Kalkar

This altar found at ancient Burginatum is the northernmost in situ Mithraic find on the continent.

Monumentum

Inscription of Cimber and Exsocho from Cologne

This monument with an inscription by two individuals was found in the first mithraeum of Cologne, Germany.

Monumentum

Black jasper tauroctony from the Seyrig collection

Black jasper gem from the Seyrig collection, depicting Mithras radiate slaying the bull, with the god grasping the muzzle with the left hand and driving a knife into the animal's neck with the right.

Monumentum

Mithréum de Mackwiller

The Mackwiller Mithraeum was built in the middle of the 2nd century, during the reign of Antoninus the Pious, on the site of a spring already worshipped by the natives.

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Serpent-entwined base from Haszloch

Circular stone base wrapped by a serpent, possibly belonging to a representation of Aion.

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