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The New Mithraeum Database of France

Mithraic monuments, temples and other objects related to Mithras from France.

Monumentum

Inscription of Secundinus of Lyon
There is no consensus on the authenticity of this monument erected by a certain Secundinus in Lugdunum, Gallia.
TNMM748 – CIMRM 906, 907
Deo invicto / Mithr(ae) / Secundinus dat.
Monumentum

Inscription of Chyndonax
This inscription on an antique funeral urn mentions a certain high priest of Mithras.
TNMM535 – CIMRM 934
Μίθρης εν οργάδ[ι] χώμα το σώμα καλύπτει Χννδόνακτος ίερεω[ς] αρχηγού, δνσεβ(ίας) απέχον λύσι(ον) οίκον ὁρώ[ν].
Mithraeum

Mithréum de Dyo
A statue and a relief of Cautes have been found in an ancient Gallo-Roman site in the commune of Dyo.
TNMM347
Monumentum

Cautes and Cautopates of Sarrebourg
The base of these sandstone reliefs bears an inscription referring to a certain Marcellius Marianus.
TNMM730 – CIMRM 968, 969
ar / ... marli ... Marc/ellius Maria[nu]s de / suo posuit.
Monumentum

Portable tauroctony of Vienna
This small white marble relief of Mithras as a bullkiller was found in the Botanical Gardens of Vienna in 1950.
TNMM724 – CIMRM 1650
Mithraeum

Mithréum d’Angers
The Mithraeum or Angers contained numerous objects, including coins, oil lamps and a ceramic vessel engraved with a votive inscription to the invincible god Mithras.
TNMM199
Monumentum

Luna in biga of Boulogne
This monument is too fragmentary to recod it definitely as a Mithras-monument.
TNMM690 – CIMRM 952
Monumentum

Candelabrum of Doryphorus
This magnificent candelabrum was found in Rome in 1803, in the Syrian Temple of Janicule.
TNMM682 – CIMRM 508, 509
Doryphorus pater.
Monumentum

Mithras head of Arles
This head of Italian marble, found at Arles, probably belongs to a sculpure of Mithras.
TNMM677 – CIMRM 881
Monumentum

Weapons from Les Bolards
A number of metal objects and weapons have been found in the Mithraeum of Les Bolards, close to Nuits-Saint-Georges in France.
TNMM678 – CIMRM 925