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Mithraeum

Mithräum I von Köln
The Mithraeum I of Cologne is situated amid a block of buildings. It was impossible to narrowly determine its construction and lay-out.
TNMM352 – CIMRM 1018
Monumentum

Cultic mithraic vase of Zeughausstraße
The Mithraic vase from Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium in Germany includes Sol-Mithras between Cautes and Cautopates, as well as a serpent, a lion and seven stars.
TNMM378 – CIMRM 1020
Monumentum

Petrogeny of Bingen
This sculpture of Mithras born from a rock was found in 1922 together with two altars in what was probably a mithraeum.
TNMM691 – CIMRM 1240
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Pleven
This relief of Mithras killing the bull in a vaulted grotto lacks the usual scorpion pinching the bull's testicles.
TNMM662 – CIMRM 2257
Mithraeum

Mithräum von Friedberg
There have probably been three mithraea discovered at Friedberg.
TNMM87
Monumentum

Altar of Inveresk with a griffin
This second altar discovered to date near Inveresk includes several elements unusual in Mithraic worship.
TNMM460
Daeo (sic) / invic(to) My(thrae) / C. Cas(sius ?) / Fla(vianus ?).
Monumentum

Altar with inscription of Bingen
The monument was dedicated by two brothers, one of them being the Pater of his community.
TNMM519 – CIMRM 1243
In h(onorem) d(omus) d(ivinae) / deo invicto / Mytrhe (sic!) ara/m ex voto dei / de suo impen/dio instituer(unt) / A(ulus) Gratius Iuven/is pater sacroru/m et A(ulus) Gratius Po/tens m(iles) l(egionis…
Monumentum

Altar of Kalkar
This altar found at ancient Burginatum is the northernmost in situ Mithraic find on the continent.
TNMM507
D(eo) I(nvicto) I(mperatori) / Ulp(ius) ( Am(---) · ( p(ater) / s(acrorum) aes · ex ius-su · ip·sius
Monumentum

Mithraic Sol altar with backlight of Bingen
The altar of the Sun god belongs to the typology of the openwork altar to be illuminated from behind.
TNMM387 – CIMRM 1241, 1242
In h(onorem) d(omus) d(ivinae) Soli / invicto Mitrae (sic!) / aram Privati Se/cundinus et Ter/tinus et Confinis / ex voto Privati / Tertini v(otum) s(olverunt) l(aeti) l(ibentes) m(erito)
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.
TNMM404