The New Mithraeum Database

Workman digging in a field near Dormagen found a vault. Against one of the walls were found two monuments related to Mithras.

This second tauroctony, found in the Mithraeum of Dormagen, was consecrated by a man of Thracian origin.

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

Founded in 50 AD, Durnomagus is now part of the German town of Dormagen.

Dormagen Mithraum

The relief depict several unusual scenes from Mithras’s myth.

Terracotta tablets depicting a Taurombolium by Attis which might be at the origins of the mithraic Tauroctony iconography.