The New Mithraeum Database

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

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

Two fragments of a bronze statuette.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Conglomerate statue of the birth of Mithras, found in a burnt layer, showing the god nude emerging from the rock with raised hands and a snake.

Marius Victor, according to the inscription on the monument, erected this monument to Mithras ’when Philip and Titianus were consuls’.

Inscription on an altar found at Cherchel.

Inscription on a white marble plate.

Probably a Greek-speaking slave who offered a Cautes placed in the Mithraeum of the Bolards.

Two marble statues (H. 0.63; 0.60).

This relief of Mithras killing the bull found in Gimmeldingen, Germany, lacks the usual raven.

This marble base found in Angera in 1868 bears the inscription of two people who reached the degree of Leo.