The New Mithraeum Database tagged with crater

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

TNMM404

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.

TNMM303

The links between Egypt and Greece are strong and far-reaching, and although the zoomorphic gods frightened Herodotus, the fact remains that the two cultures continued to influence each other.

The Tauroctony from Landerburg, Germany, shows a naked Mithras only accompanied by his fellow Cautes.

TNMM290 – CIMRM 1275

Franz Cumont considers the bas relief of Osterburken 'the most remarkable of all the monuments of the cult of Mithras found up to now'.

TNMM176 – CIMRM 1292, 1293

This relief of Mithras killing the bull, now on display in Stuttgart, includes a small altar with a sacrificial knife and an oil lamp.

TNMM563

The Felicissimo Mithraeum has a floor mosaic depicting the seven mithraic grades.

TNMM166 – CIMRM 299

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull from Nida's Mithraeum III was found in two pieces in 1887, destroyed during an air raid on Frankfurt in 1944, and restored in 1986.

TNMM407 – CIMRM 1118

The vessel to burn incense from the Mithraeum of Dieburg is similar to those found in other Roman cities of Germany.

TNMM409 – CIMRM 1269

This tauroctony may have come from Hermopolis and its style suggests a Thraco-Danubian origin.

TNMM431 – CIMRM 105