The New Mithraeum Database

Student in Roman Archaeology in France

Curator of Greek and Roman Antiquities, Royal Museum of Mariemont (Belgium). Research fields: Archaeology of the Oriental cults in the Roman Empire.

Fragment of a sandstone relief from Nida-Heddernheim depicting the torchbearer Cautopates.

This lion-headed figure from Nida, present-day Frankfurt-Heddernheim, holds a key and a shovel in his hands.

The lion-headed statue of Hedderneheim is a reconstruction from fragments of two different sculptures.

Second Mithraic sanctuary discovered in 1826 some 150 metres west of Mithraeum I at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, with finds in the Wiesbaden museum.

First Mithraic sanctuary discovered at Heddernheim (ancient Nida) in 1826, with finds preserved in the Städtisches Museum at Wiesbaden.

This relief is so well-known that it has been reproduced in nearly every handbook of archaeology and of history of religions.

Sandstone fragment from Mithraeum I at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, probably the damaged head of a torchbearer, often misidentified as Mercury.

Since 1826, four mithraea have been found at Nida-Heddernheim.

This Cautopates from Nida carries the usual downward torch in his right hand and a hooked stick in his left.

The key of Nida's Mithraeum III was decorated with a lion's head.

The Mithraeum of Pamphylia was cut back into the rock to form a cave, with a separate relief of Mithras killing the bull.