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The New Mithraeum Database

Find news, articles, monuments, persons, books and videos related to the Cult of Mithras

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Locus

Augusta Treverorum (Trier)

Augusta Treverorum, today's Trier in Rhineland-Palatinate, is considered to be the oldest city in Germany.

Monumentum

Terra sigillata bowl depicting the Mithraic cult meal from Trier

This terra sigillata was found in 1926 in a grave on the Roman cemetery of St. Matthias, Trier. An eyelet indicates that it could have been hung on a wall.

Monumentum

Mithräum von Trier

The Trier Mithräum was discovered during work on the city’s new fire station. The findings included a Cautes limestone relief.

Monumentum

Cautes of Trier

This remarkable relief by Cautes was found in what appears to be a mithraeum in Trier.

Monumentum

Red pottery fragments with bull and lion from Trier

Two red pottery fragments from a plate found near the Schützenstrasse at Augusta Treverorum (modern Trier) in Belgica, showing the forepart of a horned bull and the hindquarters of a lion, possibly Mithraic in character.

Monumentum

Pottery fragment with lion and bull's head from Trier

A small pottery fragment of uncertain find-spot, probably from Augusta Treverorum (modern Trier) in Belgica, showing a lion walking to the right before a bull's head, with palm-like foliage, tentatively interpreted as Mithraic by Loeschcke but considered too doubtful by Vermaseren…

Monumentum

Mithras tauroctony on pottery plate from Trier

Three fragments of a pottery plate bearing a relief of Mithras as bullkiller, with Cautes holding an upraised torch and sickle-shaped object and the bust of Luna above, found in the pottery workshops along the Ziegelstrasse at Augusta Treverorum (modern Trier) in Belgica…

Monumentum

White marble Mithras head in Phrygian cap from Trier

A fragment of a white marble head in a Phrygian cap, facing right, probably representing Mithras, with an uncertain find-spot but likely from Augusta Treverorum (modern Trier) in Belgica.

Monumentum

Contextual note on Mithraeum at Heiligkreuz near Trier

A scholarly note recording that finds at Heiligkreuz, including a lion's head and leg fragment, the head of a genius, and a knife with a gold handle, support the hypothesis of a Mithraeum at that location in Augusta Treverorum (modern Trier) in Belgica…

Monumentum

Bronze votive slab dedicated to Deo Invicto from Heiligkreuz near Trier

A bronze votive slab bearing a dedication to the unconquered god, found on a hill at Heiligkreuz near the proposed Mithraeum at Augusta Treverorum (modern Trier) in Belgica.

Monumentum

Head of Cautopates from Trier

A small limestone head of Cautopates, facing right, with a damaged nose and a stone pin on the reverse indicating it belonged to a relief, found on the slope of a hill near Heiligkreuz at Augusta Treverorum (modern Trier) in Belgica.

Monumentum

Four-sided limestone altar from Trier

Limestone altar from the Trier baths, carved on four sides with a lion and serpent, flanked by Sol and Luna, and likely linked to a Mithraic context involving Hekate.

Monumentum

Krater with weekday gods of Trier

The vase bears an inscription to the god but also 'king' Mithras.

Notitia

A new mithraeum discovered during excavation in Trier

A place of worship for the Roman god of light Mithras was discovered during archaeological excavations in Trier. This includes a larger relief.

Monumentum

Mithras rock-birth of Trier

The relief depicts the birth of Mithras, holding a globe, surrounded by the zodiac.

Monumentum

Cantharus to Deo Invicto of Trier

The cantharus of Trier is reminiscent of the crater that often appears in tauroctony scenes collecting the blood from the slaughtered animal.

Monumentum

Head in Phrygian cap from St. Wendel, possibly identical with CIMRM 993

A head in a Phrygian cap, possibly belonging to a torchbearer statue, formerly kept at St. Wendel in Belgica but possibly transported to the Provinzialmuseum in Trier, where it may be identical with CIMRM 993.

Monumentum

Altar with Phrygian cap from Altbachtal

The altar with a Phrygian cap and a dagger from Trier was erected by a Pater called Martius Martialis.

Syndexios

Anttiocus

Member of the Mithraic community of Les Bolards and dedicator of a statue of Cautes.

Notitia

Hekate: Magic, Mystery and the Liminal World

Lenni George on Hekate’s development across ancient traditions, from mystery cults to magical practice and philosophical thought.

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