The New Mithraeum Database

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

Mithraeum

Mithräum von Dormagen

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

TNMM91

Deo Soli i(nvicto) M(ithrae) p(ro) s(alute) i(mperatoris) Suran l(ibertus) dupl(icarius) ale Noricorum ci(vis) Trax v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito).

Monumentum

Fragmented tauroctony of Dormagen

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

TNMM633 – CIMRM 1014, 1015

Deo Soli I(nvicto) M(ithrae) p(ro) s(alute) Th(?)urat(?)r(?)[al]is Didil[ae f(ilius)] / dup[l(arius)] al(a)e Noricorum ci[vis T(h)rax v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito)]

Syndexios

Gaius Amandinius Verus

Monumentum

Mercury of Groß-Gerau

The statue was dedicated to Mercury Quillenius, an epithet used to refer to a Celtic god or the Greek Kulúvios.

TNMM618

Mercurio / Quillenio A(ulus) / Ibliomarius / Placidus nego(otiator) / cas(tello) Mat(tiacorum) lanius / v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) l(aetus) m(erito).

Monumentum

Mercury of Stockstadt

The Stockstadt Mercury carries a purse and a small child around which a snake is coiled.

TNMM418

Syndexios

Aulus Ibliomarius Placidus

Butcher who dedicated a statue of Mercurius Quillenius in the Mithraeum of Groß-Gerau.

Mithraeum

Mithräum von Groß-Gerau

In the Mithraeum of Gross Gerau, discovered in 1989, a statue of Mercury, a lion and an altar were found.

TNMM617

Locus

Groß-Gerau

Groß-Gerau is the district seat of the Groß-Gerau district, lying in the southern Frankfurt Rhein-Main Region in Hesse, Germany, and serving as a hub for the surrounding area.