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Monumentum

Mithräum von Osterburken

The Mithraeum of Osterburken could not be excavated bodily owing to the water of a well in the immediate neighbourhood. The monument had been covered carefully with sand.
  • Reconstrucción de una ceremonia mitráica en el Mitreo de Osterburken

    Reconstrucción de una ceremonia mitráica en el Mitreo de Osterburken
    Aymar 

  • Tauroctony of Osterburken

    Tauroctony of Osterburken
    Petrus Agricola 

 
 
The New Mithraeum
4 Jun 2009
Updated on May 2023
 

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A large Mithras relief was found at Osterburken when a cellar was dug not far from the Kirnachbrücke at the beginning of the Bofsheimerstrasze in 1861. The relief points to a Mithraeum which, however, could not be excavated bodily owing to the water of a well in the immediate neighbourhood. The monument had been covered carefully with sand and before it stood two altars in sandstone (H. 1.28 and 1.10 Br. 0.59 and 0.65 D. 0.19 and 0.23). At a depth of 2.40 mtrs a wall was discovered in N-E direction which was connected with another semi-circular wall in N-W direction (probably the apse of the …

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Tauroctony of Osterburken

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