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The New Mithraeum Database

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Syndexios

Mercatorius Castrensis

Offered the famous Tauroctony of Osterburken to the unconquerable sun god Mithras.

Syndexios

Potentianus

Pater that consecrated the Mithraeum of Gimmeldingen.

 
Monumentum

Cautopates with a hooked stick from Nida

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

 
Monumentum

Cautes and Cautopates of Sarrebourg

The base of these sandstone reliefs bears an inscription referring to a certain Marcellius Marianus.

 
Monumentum

Funerary urn of Chyndonax

This funerary inscription, engraved on a stone urn discovered near Roman Dijon, mentions a certain Chyndonax, described as a priestly leader of Mithras.

 
Monumentum

Inscription of Pylades from Angers

This marble plaque from Iuliomagus, Roman Angers, bears a rare dedication to Mithras by Pylades, a slave of an imperial slave connected to the Roman administration in Gaul.

 
Monumentum

Altar from Künzing by Valerius Magio

This fragmented monument bears an inscription of a certain veteran named Valerius Magio.

 
Monumentum

Altar to Mithras and Mars from Mainz

This altar has been unusually dedicated to both gods Mithras and Mars at Mogontiacum, present-day Mainz.

 
Monumentum

Altar from Gimmeldingen by Faustinus

Corax Materninius Faustinus dedicated other monuments found in the same Mithraeum in Gimmeldingen.

 
Monumentum

Head of Mithras from Cologne

This marble head of Mithras was found in the Luxemburgerstrasze in Cologne, Germany.

 
Monumentum

Head of Mithras from Mackwiller

This fragment of the head of a young Mithras is one of the finds made during the excavations carried out by Jean-Jacques Hatt at Mackwiller, France, in 1955.

 
Monumentum

Mercury of Groß-Gerau

The statue was dedicated to Mercury Quillenius, an epithet used to refer to a Celtic god or the Greek Kulúvios.

 
Monumentum

Tauroctony from La Bâtie-Montsaléon

This damaged relief of Mithras killing the bull found in 1804 and formerly exposed at Gap, is now lost.

 
Monumentum

Statue of a mother goddess with child

This unusual statue in Mithraic iconography of a mother nursing a child was found in the vestibule of the Mithraeum of Dieburg.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 878

White marble relief, found near Aix "a la Torse dans un enclos ayant appartenu à la famille de Colonia".

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 880

This lamp, depicting a man slicing his victim into pieces with a sword, was believed to be associated with the Cult of Mithras.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 927

Fragment of limestone from Porêts, which was used in the 4th century.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 939 = 1324

Stela dedicated to Mithras Invictus, found in 1895–1896 at Epamantodurum (modern Mandeure), in the territory of the civitas Sequanorum (Gallia Belgica). The inscription records a vow to Mithras Invictus made for the welfare of Sextus Maenius Pudens.

 
Monumentum

Two-sided relief from Rückingen

This remarkable double-sided relief depicts the myth of Mithras and the Tauroctony on one side, and a scene of Mithras the hunter and the banquet of Mithras and the Sol on the other.

 
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Leontocephaline figure from Frankfurt

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

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