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Monumentum

Tauroctony of Pleven
This relief of Mithras killing the bull in a vaulted grotto lacks the usual scorpion pinching the bull's testicles.
TNMM662 – CIMRM 2257
Monumentum

Triptic of Tróia
The remains of the mithraic triptic of Tróia, Lusitania, were part of a bigger composition.
TNMM245 – CIMRM 798
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
Monumentum

Inscription of Aurelius Iustinianus from Ptuj
This inscription belongs to the 4th mithraeum found in the modern town of Ptuj.
TNMM644 – CIMRM 1614
Templum / dei{i} Sol(is) Inv(icti) Mit(hrae) / Aure[l(ius)] Iusti/nianus v(ir) p(erfectissimus) / dux labefa/ctatum re/stituit.
Monumentum

Tauroctony medallion of Transylvania
This medallion belongs to a specific category of rounded pieces found in other provinces of the Roman world.
TNMM430 – CIMRM 2187
Monumentum

Colonne with inscription by workers of the pig market
The inscription included the names of the brotherhood, which are now lost.
TNMM619
S[oli] i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / et sodalicio eius / actores de foro suario / quorum nomina / [[sequuntur]]…
Monumentum

Altar of Inveresk with a griffin
This second altar discovered to date near Inveresk includes several elements unusual in Mithraic worship.
TNMM460
Daeo (sic) / invic(to) My(thrae) / C. Cas(sius ?) / Fla(vianus ?).
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
Monumentum

Cautopates with a hooked stick of Nida
This Cautopates from Nida carries the usual downward torch in his right hand and a hooked stick in his left.
TNMM105 – CIMRM 1110
Mithraeum

Mithréum of Strasbourg
Lors de la construction de l’église Saint-Paul en 1911, un mithraeum a été mis au jour à Königshoffen, vicus gallo-romain situé aux abords du camp légionnaire de Strasbourg-Argentorate.
TNMM217 – CIMRM 1335
Monumentum

Dedication inscription from Koenigshoffen Mithraeum
The inscription reports the restoration of the coloured painting of the main relief of the Mithraeum by a veteran of the Legio VIII Augusta.
TNMM253 – CIMRM 1361
In h(onorem) d(omus) d(ivinae) deo Invic/to M(ithrae) C(aius) Celsinius / Matutinus veter(anus) / leg(ionis) VIII Aug(ustae) Alexan/drianae typum / de suo repinx(it)
Monumentum

Consecration for Mars Meder
The relief of naked Roman soldier, wearing a mantle and a Phrygian cap, has been related to the Mithras' cult.
TNMM216
D(eo) Medru Matu/tina Cobnert(i)
Monumentum

Cautes and Cautopates of Friedberg
These two reliefs of Cautes and Cautopates where found in the south corner of one of the Mithraea of Friedberg, Hesse.
TNMM593 – CIMRM 1055, 1056
D(eo) I(nvicto) M(ithrae) / Cautopati
Mithraeum

Mithraea of Heddernheim
Since 1826, four mithraea have been found at Nida-Heddernheim.
TNMM197
Monumentum

Key of Mithraeum III at Nida
The key of Nida's Mithraeum III was decorated with a lion's head.
TNMM406 – CIMRM 1115