The New Mithraeum Database

Monumentum

Altar to Mithras and Mars of Mainz

This altar has been unusually dedicated to both gods Mithras and Mars at Mogontiacum, present-day Mainz.

TNMM513

D(eo) I(nvicto) M(ithrae) / et Marti / Secundini/us Amantius / cornicu(larius) / praef(ecti) leg(ionis) / XXII permi/ttente Pri/mulo patre / ex voto pos/uit l(ibens) l(aetus) m(erito).

Monumentum

Inscription of Vaison-la-Romaine

This is one of the few known Mithraic inscriptions dedicated by a member who attained the grade of Perses.

TNMM516 – CIMRM 887

L. Apronius / Chrysomal/lus / ob gradum per/sicum / dedicavit.

Monumentum

Altar with inscription of Bingen

The monument was dedicated by two brothers, one of them being the Pater of his community.

TNMM519 – CIMRM 1243

In h(onorem) d(omus) d(ivinae) / deo invicto / Mytrhe (sic!) ara/m ex voto dei / de suo impen/dio instituer(unt) / A(ulus) Gratius Iuven/is pater sacroru/m et A(ulus) Gratius Po/tens m(iles) l(egionis…

Mithraeum

Mithraeum I of Stockstadt

The Mithraeum I in Stockstadt contained images of Mithras but also of Mercury, Hercules, Diana and Epona, among others.

TNMM400

Mithraeum

Mithraeum II of Stockstadt

The Mithraeum II in Stockstadt was in fact the first one known built in the vicus. It was destroyed by fire around 210.

TNMM573

Monumentum

Tauroctony of Fellbach

This relief of Mithras killing the bull, now on display in Stuttgart, includes a small altar with a sacrificial knife and an oil lamp.

TNMM563

Syndexios

Publius Aelius Vocco

Soldier of the XXII Legio Primigenia Pia Fidelis stationed in Mainz that erected an altar to Mithras in Sumelocenna.

Mithraeum

Mithräum von Künzing

The Mithraeum of Kunzing was an underground building, oriented east-west. The entrance was probably on the east.

TNMM357

Monumentum

Altar with inscription of Künzing

This fragmented monument bears an inscription of a certain veteran named Valerius Magio.

TNMM561

I(nvicto) M(ithrae)/V(alerius) Magio/vet(eranus) (h)on(esta) m(issione)/d(imissus) v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) l(aetus) m(erito).

Mithraeum

Mithréum de La Bâtie-Montsaléon

During the excavations of 1804-1805, a series of monuments dedicated to Mithras and a temple were discovered at ancient Mons Seleucus.

TNMM499

Syndexios

Tiberius Claudius Romanius

Veteran from Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium (Köln) who erected an inscritiption to Mithras and his ally Sol.

Monumentum

Relief de Bourg-Saint-Andéol

The low relief of Bourg-Saint-Andéol depicting Mithras killing the bull has been chiseled on the rock.

TNMM129 – CIMRM 896, 897

Num[ini] . . . . V . . | deum Invictum | T Fur(ius) Iu[stus?] d(e) s(ua) p(ecunia) f(ecit).

Mithraeum

Mithréum de Bourg-Saint-Andéol

The Mithréum de Bourg-Saint-Andéol was built against a rock where the main Tauroctony was chiseled.

TNMM62 – CIMRM 895

Monumentum

Altar of Kalkar

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

TNMM507

D(eo) I(nvicto) I(mperatori) / Ulp(ius) ( Am(---) · ( p(ater) / s(acrorum) aes · ex ius-su · ip·sius

Syndexios

Chyndonax (Χυνδόναξ)

The cenders of Chyndonax were found on an urn with an inscription that reads High Priest of Mithras.

Mithraeum

Mithréum de Mackwiller

The Mackwiller Mithraeum was built in the middle of the 2nd century, during the reign of Antoninus the Pious, on the site of a spring already worshipped by the natives.

TNMM68

Monumentum

Head of Mithras of Mackwiller

This fragment of the head of a young Mithras is one of the finds made during the excavations carried out by Jean-Jacques Hatt at Mackwiller, France, in 1955.

TNMM117 – CIMRM 1332

Monumentum

Tauroctony of Sarrebourg

The Tauroctony of Saarbourg (Sarrebourg, ancient Pons Sarravi), France, contains most of Mithras deeds known in a single relief.

TNMM114 – CIMRM 966, 967

In h(onorem) d(omus) d(ivinae) deo inv[ict]o Marceleus Marianus / d(e) / s(uo) p(osuit)

Syndexios

Martius Martialis

Pater who offered several monuments, including a temple, in Augusta Treverorum.

Syndexios

Aulus Gratius Potens

Dedicated an altar together with his bother in Bingium.