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  • Monumentum

    Altar with Mithras rock-birth of Nida

    The Mithraic stele from Nida depicts the Mithras Petrogenesis and the gods Cautes, Cautopates, Heaven and Ocean.

    TNMM388 – CIMRM 1127

    D(eo) inv(icto) Mit(hrae) / Senilius Car/antinus / c(ivis) Medio/m(atricus) V(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) l(aetus) m(erito) / Sive Cracissiu[s]. // P(etram) genetricem.
  • Syndexios

    Potentianus

    Pater that consecrated the Mithraeum of Gimmeldingen.
  • Monumentum

    Oceaunus of Mérida

    The sculpture of Oceanus in Merida bears an inscription by the Pater Patrorum Gaius Accius Hedychrus.

    TNMM428 – CIMRM 778, 779

    G(aius) Acc(ius) Hedychrus / p(ater) patrum
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony relief of Sarmizegetusa

    This relief of Mithras slaying the bull incorporates the scene of the god carrying the bull and its birth from a rock.

    TNMM432 – CIMRM 2063

  • Monumentum

    Naked figure from Mérida

    This sculpture may be a naked dadophorus, probably Cautopates.

    TNMM243 – CIMRM 775

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Stixneusiedl

    The Tauroctony of Stixneusiedl was found in ancient Pannonia Superior, currently Austria.

    TNMM278 – CIMRM 1658

    D(eo) In(victo) M(ithrae) S(oli) pro s(alute) Aug(ustorum) nn(ostrorum) L(ucii) Sep(timii) / Valerius et Valerianus sex(viri) col(oniae) K(arnunti) / v(otum) s(olverunt) l(ibentes) m(erito)
  • Monumentum

    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.

    TNMM387 – CIMRM 1241, 1242

    In h(onorem) d(omus) d(ivinae) Soli / invicto Mitrae (sic!) / aram Privati Se/cundinus et Ter/tinus et Confinis / ex voto Privati / Tertini v(otum) s(olverunt) l(aeti) l(ibentes) m(erito)
  • Mithraeum

    Mithräum II von Bingen

    A possible Mithraeum II was found in Bingen, but the few remains are not sufficient to prove it.

    TNMM354 – CIMRM 1245

  • Monumentum

    Aion from Nida

    This lion-headed figure from Nida, present-day Frankfurt-Heddernheim, holds a key and a shovel in his hands.

    TNMM277

  • Monumentum

    Aion of Hedderneheim

    The lion-headed statue of Hedderneheim is a reconstruction from fragments of two different sculptures.

    TNMM238 – CIMRM 1138

  • Monumentum

    Cautes and Cautopates from Mithraeum III of Heddernheim

    The two companions of Mithras carry a torch and a shepherd's staff at the third Mithraeum in Frankfurt-Heddernheim, formerly Nida.

    TNMM408 – CIMRM 1119

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony from the Mithraeum III of Nida

    The relief of Mithras slaying the bull from Nida's Mithraeum III was found in two pieces in 1887, destroyed during an air raid on Frankfurt in 1944, and restored in 1986.

    TNMM407 – CIMRM 1118

  • Mithraeum

    Mithräum von Wiesloch

    The first members of the Wiesloch Mithraeum may have been veterans from Ladenburg and Heidelberg.

    TNMM66

  • Monumentum

    Relief of a round platter with food of Ladenburg

    The iconography of the platter of Ladenburg might evoke the food consumed during Mithraic banquets.

    TNMM405

  • Monumentum

    Cantharus to Deo Invicto of Trier

    The cantharus of Trier is reminiscent of the crater that often appears in tauroctony scenes collecting the blood from the slaughtered animal.

    TNMM404

  • Monumentum

    Ceremonial sword of Riegel

    The Mithraic sword found in the Riegel Mithraeum may have been used as a prop during rituals.

    TNMM395

  • Mithraeum

    Mithräum von Karlsruhe

    TNMM50

  • Mithraeum

    Mithräum von Ladenburg

    TNMM71

  • Monumentum

    CIMRM 361

    Pars superior parvae columnae marmoreae litteris saeculi secundi exeuntis vel tertii effossa ut videtur in Esquilino.

    TNMM964 – CIMRM 361

 
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