The New Mithraeum Database

Monumentum

Tauroctony of Osterburken

Franz Cumont considers the bas relief of Osterburken ’the most remarkable of all the monuments of the cult of Mithras found up to now’.

TNMM176 – CIMRM 1292, 1293

D[eo] S[oli] I[nvicto] M[ithrae] M[er?]catorius Castrensis in suo cons[ituit].

Monumentum

Tauroctony from the Mithräum von Heddernheim

This relief is so well-known that it has been reproduced in nearly every handbook of archaeology and of history of religions.

TNMM198 – CIMRM 1083

Mithraeum

Mithréum d’Angers

The Mithraeum or Angers contained numerous objects, including coins, oil lamps and a ceramic vessel engraved with a votive inscription to the invincible god Mithras.

TNMM199

Monumentum

Two-sided relief from Rückingen

This remarkable double-sided relief depicts the myth of Mithras and the Tauroctony on one side, and a scene of Mithras the hunter and the banquet of Mithras and the Sol on the other.

TNMM552 – CIMRM 1137

Monumentum

Inscriptions of Eauze

Several inscriptions dedicated to Mithras have been found in Eauze, including these two by a certain Pater Sextus Vervicius Eutyches, discovered in 1768.

TNMM750 – CIMRM 888, 889

Deo Invict(o) / Sex(tus) Vervic(ius) / Eutyches / vestiar(ius) civ(is) / Trev(er) pater. V/ervi/cius Eutyc/hes pa/ter.

Monumentum

Cautopates de Bordeaux

The Cautopates of Bordeaux stands as usual with his legs crossed and arms down.

TNMM139

Monumentum

Altar to Semele from Cologne

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

TNMM729 – CIMRM 1027

Deae Semelae et / sororibus eiius(!) / deabus ob honorem / sacri matratus / Reginia Paterna / mater nata et / facta aram po/suit / sub sacerdotal(i) / Seranio Catullo / patre.

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.

TNMM726 – CIMRM 1021

Have / Cimber es(sedarius) et / Pietas Ensocho / essed(ario) sodali / [b]ene merenti / [pos]uit. Vale. {H}Ave / Cimber es(sedarius) et / Pietas Exsocho / essed(ario) sodali / [be]ne merenti / [pos]…

Monumentum

Inscription of Secundinus of Lyon

There is no consensus on the authenticity of this monument erected by a certain Secundinus in Lugdunum, Gallia.

TNMM748 – CIMRM 906, 907

Deo invicto / Mithr(ae) / Secundinus dat.

Monumentum

Inscription to Mithras by Claudius Romanius from Köln

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

TNMM559

D(eo) I(nvicto) M(ithrae) S(oli) s(ocio) / Tiberius Cl(audius) / Romaniu[s] / veteranu[s] / l(ibens) m(erito).

Mithraeum

Mithräum II von Köln

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

TNMM353

Mithraeum

Mithräum II von Güglingen

Two Mithras sanctuaries, which were located on the edge of the settlement, were excavated in Güglingen.

TNMM262

Mithraeum

Mithräum von Trier

The Trier Mithräum was discovered during work on the city’s new fire station. The findings included a Cautes limestone relief.

TNMM587

Monumentum

CIMRM 878

White marble relief, found near Aix "a la Torse dans un enclos ayant appartenu à la famille de Colonia".

TNMM1293 – CIMRM 878

P. Tallius One/simus / v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito).

Monumentum

CIMRM 992

Altar in limestone from the Jura, found "bei Verbreiterung der Moselbahn unweit der Uberflihrung des Weberbaches" near the Therms (1879).

TNMM1364 – CIMRM 992

Mithraeum

Mithräum von Mundelsheim

The two altars found in the Mithraeum of Mundelsheim one of Sol and the other of Luna, are exposed in situ.

TNMM51

Monumentum

Altars of Sol and Luna from Mundelsheim

The altars of the gods of the Sun and Moon found in the Mithraeum of Mundelsheim wear openwork segments that could be lighten from behind.

TNMM386

Mithraeum

Mithréum d’Orbe-Boscéaz

The site of Orbe-Boscéaz, Switzerland, also known as Boscéay, is renowned for its mosaics and mithraic temple.

TNMM260

Locus

Urbe

Orbe is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud.

Monumentum

Two-sided relief of Dieburg

The relief of Dieburg shows Mithras riding a horse as main figure, surrounded by several scenes of the myth.

TNMM231 – CIMRM 1247

[Side A:] D(eo) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / Silves/trius / Silvi/nius et Silvestrius Pe[rpetus et A]urelius nepos / v(otum) s(olverunt) l(ibentes) l(aeti) m(erito). / Perpetus fra/te[r] artis sutor(iae). …