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The New Mithraeum Database

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Feast scene with Mithras and Sol from Ladenburg

Bas-relief depicting a naked Sol leaning over his fellow Mithras while raising a drinking horn during the sacred feast.

 
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Iron sword and crown of Güglingen

Several iron fragments found in the second mithraeum of Güglingen may have been used during mithraic ceremonies.

 
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Incensiary vessel of Dieburg

The vessel to burn incense from the Mithraeum of Dieburg is similar to those found in other Roman cities of Germany.

 
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Altar of Faustinus from Gimmeldingen

Corax Materninius Faustinus dedicated other monuments found in the same Mithraeum in Gimmeldingen.

 
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Mercury of Groß-Gerau

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

 
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Incriptions to the gods of East and West

These two inscriptions by a certain Titus Martialius Candidus are dedicated to Cautes and Cautopates.

 
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Vicus Vetonianus

Settlement of prehistoric origin that developed into the Roman Vicus Vetonianus, modern Dieburg, incorporated into the civitas Auderiensium in Germania Superior and attested as an active centre during the Roman period.

 
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Two-sided relief of Dieburg

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

 
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Mithräum von Friedberg

There have probably been three mithraea discovered at Friedberg.

 
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Petrogeny from Bingen

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

 
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Altar with inscription of Bingen

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

 
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Mithraic Sol altar with backlight of Bingen

The altar of the Sun god belongs to the typology of the openwork altar to be illuminated from behind.

 
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CIMRM 1231

Small votive altar in white limestone from Aquae Mattiacae, dedicated to Deo Invicto by a miles pius. The top preserves the head of Cautes with his raised torch.

 
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Mithras with bow from Dieburg

Statue in yellow sandstone found in the pit of the Mithraeum of Dieburg, showing Mithras standing beside an altar with bow and arrow, accompanied by a vase and associated with the water miracle.

 
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CIMRM 1120

Triangular relief in yellow sandstone showing a crescent in relief.

 
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Cautes and Cautopates of Stockstadt

Reliefs of Cautes and Cautopates dedicated by Florius Florentius of Saalburg and Ancarinius Severus.

 
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Votive plaque of Stockstadt

This plaque was found in Mithraeum I at Stockstadt broken into pieces inserted between the blocks of the socle of the cult relief, in the manner of a votive deposit.

 
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Mercury of Stockstadt

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

 
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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.

 
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Mithraeum I of Stockstadt

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

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