The New Mithraeum Database

Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium, usually just called Colonia, was the Roman settlement in the Rhineland that became the modern city of Cologne, now in Germany. It was the capital of Germania Inferior and the military headquarters of the region.

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

TNMM726 – CIMRM 1021

This marble head of Mithras was found in the Luxemburgerstrasze in Cologne, Germany.

TNMM727 – CIMRM 1022

In this relief of the rock birth of Mithras, the child sun god holds a bundle of wheat in his left hand instead of the usual torch.

TNMM728

The Mithraeum I of Cologne is situated amid a block of buildings. It was impossible to narrowly determine its construction and lay-out.

TNMM352 – CIMRM 1018

A second Mithraeum was found in Cologne described by R. L. Grodon as of ’small importance’.

TNMM353

Votive inscription dedicated to Mithras by the veteran soldier Tiberius Claudius Romanius, from the Mithraeum II Köln, 3rd century.

TNMM559

The temple contained hundreds of ceramic vessels and animal bones, which may indicated that a grand Mithraic feast was celebrated before its closing.

TNMM182

The vessel to burn incense from the Mithraeum of Dieburg is similar to those found in other Roman cities of Germany.

TNMM409 – CIMRM 1269

The Mithraic vase from Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium in Germany includes Sol-Mithras between Cautes and Cautopates, as well as a serpent, a lion and seven stars.

TNMM378 – CIMRM 1020

This coin was deposited in the upper level of the throne in the cult niche of the Mitreo della Planta Pedis.

TNMM557 – CIMRM 277

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

TNMM507

This sandstone altar found in Cologne bears an inscription to the goddess Semele and her sisters.

TNMM729 – CIMRM 1027

Gladiator to whom his companions Cimber and Pietas erected a monument in Colonia, Germania.