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  • Monumentum

    Fragments of altars from Gimmeldingen

    These fragmentary monuments, one with an inscription, were found in the Gimmeldingen mithraeum.

    TNMM712 – CIMRM 1322

    V(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) l(aetus) m(erito).
  • Monumentum

    Altar of Faustinus from Gimmeldingen

    This sandstone altar was dedicated to the god Invictus by a certain Faustinus from Gimmeldingen.

    TNMM694 – CIMRM 1320

    [De]o / [i]nviht(o) / [Fa]ustinus / [c]orax / [v]o(tum) s(olvit) /l(ibens) l(aetus) m(erito).
  • Monumentum

    Inscription of Corax Materninius Faustinus of Gimmeldingen

    The inscription was located at the base of the main Tauroctony of the Gimmeldingen Mithraeum.

    TNMM441 – CIMRM 1315

    In h(onorem) d(omus) d(ivinae) / deo inviht[o] (sic) Midre (sic) / Maternin[i]us Faustinu(s) / carax (sic) fan[um] cum solo inviht[o] / in suo fecit c[ onsac]ratus XI k(alendis) Feb(ruariis). Fanus …
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Gimmeldingen

    This relief of Mithras killing the bull found in Gimmeldingen, Germany, lacks the usual raven.

    TNMM693 – CIMRM 1314

  • Monumentum

    Altar to Luna from Gimmeldingen

    This sandstone altar was dedicated to Luna, who is mentioned as a male deity.

    TNMM711 – CIMRM 1321

  • Mithraeum

    Mithräum von Gimmeldingen

    The few remains of the Mithraeum of Gimmeldingen are preserved at the Historical Museum of the Palatinate, in Speyer, Germany.

    TNMM49 – CIMRM 1313

  • Locus

    Gimmeldingen

    Gimmeldingen is a village, part of the town of Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Germany. Its origins, along with the village of Lobloch (which used to be connected), can be traced back to Roman settlements in 325 AD.
  • Monumentum

    Mithras-inscription of Speyer

    This monument with an inscription to the god Sol Mithras was found in front of the cathedral of Speyer during some sewer works.

    TNMM692 – CIMRM 1312

    [In] ho(norem) d(omus) d(ivinae) / [deo] Soli / [Mi]trh/[ae].
  • Locus

    Noviomagus Nemetum

    Speyer, historically known in English as Spires, is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany with approximately 50,000 inhabitants.
  • Monumentum

    Petrogeny of Bingen

    This sculpture of Mithras born from a rock was found in 1922 together with two altars in what was probably a mithraeum.

    TNMM691 – CIMRM 1240

  • Monumentum

    Luna in biga of Boulogne

    This monument is too fragmentary to recod it definitely as a Mithras-monument.

    TNMM690 – CIMRM 952

  • Monumentum

    Altar of Murius Victor from Frankfurt

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

    TNMM681 – CIMRM 1102

    I(n) h(onorem) d(omus) d(iviuae) / d(eo) i(nvicto) Mithrae / Murius Victor / aedilis c(oloniae) T(aunensium) ex v[oto]. [Pos(uit) ded(it)] q(ue) / [d. n. Phi]l[ippo et] Ti/[tiano] co(n)s(ulibus).
  • Syndexios

    Murius Victor

    Murius Victor was an aedile of Civitas Taunensium who, in fulfilment of a vow, built an altar to Mithras.
  • Monumentum

    Mithras head of Arles

    This head of Italian marble, found at Arles, probably belongs to a sculpure of Mithras.

    TNMM677 – CIMRM 881

  • Monumentum

    Weapons from Les Bolards

    A number of metal objects and weapons have been found in the Mithraeum of Les Bolards, close to Nuits-Saint-Georges in France.

    TNMM678 – CIMRM 925

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Dormagen

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

    TNMM264 – CIMRM 1012, 1013

    D(eo) S(oli) i(nvicto) imp(erio) C. Amandinius / Verus buc(inator) v(otum) l(ibens) l(aetus) m(erito).
  • Monumentum

    Altar of Gaius Iulius Crescens of Friedberg for Respectus

    This fragmented altar of a certain Caius Iulius Crescens, found in the Mithraeum of Friedberg, bears an inscription to the Mother Goddesses.

    TNMM646 – CIMRM 1066

    Matron/is / C(aius) Iul(ius) Cresce/nis (sic) pro / Respecto / v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) l(aetus) m(erito).
  • Syndexios

    Gaius Iulius Crescens

    He devoted an altar to the Mother Goddesses for Respectus, found at the Mithraeum of Friedberg.
  • Mithraeum

    Mithräum von Friedberg

    There have probably been three mithraea discovered at Friedberg.

    TNMM87

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony relief from Ladenburg

    The Tauroctony from Landerburg, Germany, shows a naked Mithras only accompanied by his fellow Cautes.

    TNMM290 – CIMRM 1275