The New Mithraeum Database

Two basalt blocks walled into the podium of Mithraeum III at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, which supported decorative sandstone bases

Two basalt altars set into the corners of the west podium at Mithraeum III, Heddernheim, ancient Nida, one now lost

Two sandstone altars with voluted tops from Mithraeum III at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, possibly used to support a partition bar across the cult niche

Third Mithraic sanctuary found north-west of the cemetery at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, in 1887 and fully excavated by G. Wolff in 1890

Group of basalt cult furniture from Mithraeum II at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, comprising an altar, a large base, and two smaller bases

Damaged red sandstone altar from Mithraeum II at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, with the representation of an axe on its front face

Red sandstone statue of a lying lion with a hollow channel running through its body, from Mithraeum II at Heddernheim, ancient Nida

Unpublished coin deposit from Mithraeum I at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, not recorded by the original excavators

Red sandstone statue from Mithraeum I at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, depicting the young naked Mithras with curly hair being born from the rock

Sandstone relief preserving parts of Mithras, the dog and Cautopates from a lost third Mithraeum at Friedberg.

Marble relief fragment showing Mithras slaying the bull, originally belonging to a lost second Mithraeum at Friedberg.

Ritual coin deposits beneath sanctuary bases helping date the Mithraeum to the late second century A.D.

Triple-part sanctuary at Saalburg whose Mithraic interpretation remains uncertain despite serpent-vases and possible Aion fragments.

Small inscribed plaque invoking Mithras and Mercury attached to a sandstone column inside the sanctuary.

Elongated cult building near the Saalburg fort traditionally interpreted as a Mithraeum but later reconsidered as a possible funerary enclosure.

Limestone base with remains of a torchbearer and an inscription to Mithras by Lucius Pervincius Sequens.

Subterranean Mithraic sanctuary near Dormagen with painted walls and a cult relief at the rear.

Group of altars and a base indicating the existence of a Mithraeum near the Roman camp of Vetera.

This sculpture from Dobrosloveni, Romania, depicts the petrogenesis of Mithras, with a hole through the generative rock from which water flowed.

Commagenean sanctuary preserving relief fragments of Mithras greeting royal figures at the hierothesion of Mithridates Kallinikos.