The New Mithraeum Database

Unusual hexagonal sandstone altar from Mithraeum I at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, with six decorated sides of cult significance

Sandstone statue of a seated lion in attacking posture, from Mithraeum I at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, with its hindmost part lost

Small sandstone altar from Mithraeum I at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, bearing a snake and cult imagery consistent with Mithraic worship

Weathered sandstone relief from Mithraeum I at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, showing a standing Mercury whose body is covered by a shoulder cape

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

Sandstone altar from Mithraeum I at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, decorated on one side with the representation of a Phrygian cap

Sandstone relief from Mithraeum I at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, depicting a standing Minerva resting her left hand on a shield while holding a lance

Sandstone relief from Ober-Florstadt featuring two arched niches each containing a naked Dioscurus wearing a shoulder cape and pilum

Pair of sandstone altars from Ober-Florstadt, the larger of which bears a palm-branch on its upper cornice

Pair of small sandstone altars of different sizes, recovered from the Mithraeum at Ober-Florstadt in Upper Germany

Fragment of a sandstone statue, comprising a head and hand certainly belonging to a figure of Cautes, found at Ober-Florstadt

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

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

Sacrificial knife, lamps, pottery, animal remains and inscribed terracotta fragments discovered inside the sanctuary.

Sandstone altar from the centre of the sanctuary dedicated to the goddesses Quadrubiae near a crossroads shrine.

Inscription dedicated by Caius Paulinius Iustus to the Virtus of the invincible deity within the Mithraic sanctuary.

Sandstone altar decorated with ritual vessels and the hooked staff associated with Roman beneficiarii.

Sandstone altar from the cella decorated with a knife and axe and originally placed on one of the sanctuary bases.

Lost sandstone altar or base decorated with a Phrygian cap from the speleum of the Friedberg Mithraeum.

Sandstone statuette fragment preserving the curled head of a young figure from the Mithraeum of Taunus.