The New Mithraeum Database

The Mithriac votive sculpture comes from a clandestine excavation in the Tarquinia area. The criminal chain is active in archaeological areas of Rome and southern Etruria.

Fragment of pottery (diam. 0.095); find-spot unknown.

From the two preceding finds it may be concluded, that there was a Mithraeum at Heiligkreuz.

In the back of the sanctuary, on the spot of the main relief, there lay on a fragment of this monument the skeleton of a man of about thirty or fourty years old.

Among the remnants of numerous lamps, a small terracotta lamp (H. 0.038 Br. 0.07) draws the attention.

Numerous bones of animals, such as birds (mostly hens), beasts of prey (jaw- bones and fangs of wolves, foxes and martens) and the muzzle of a wild boar.

Naked torso (H. 0.145 Br. 0.16 D. 0.08) of a robust body.

Fragment (H. 0.75 Br. 0.15 D. 0.12) of a standing, naked man with a bird (cock?) on his 1.

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Two fragments of a bronze statuette.

1) Right upper comer of a stone relief (H. 0.27 Br. 0.22 D. 0.14).

By the many finds it is clear that at Entrains there must have existed a Mi- thraeum or several Mithraea.

Fragment of a limestone relief (H. 0.30 Br. 0.40 D. 0.09).

A fragment of a stone relief (H. 0.22 Br. 0.21 D. 0.13).

A fragment of a stone relief, broken in two pieces (H. 0.31 Br. 0.35 D. 0.03).

Fragment of a pebble relief (H. 0.32 Br. 0.31 D. 0.13).

Red terra-sigillata cup (diam. 0.16-0.18), which has a relief-work.

Altar in Lucey.