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Locus

Les Bolards

Nuits-Saint-Georges is a commune in the arrondissement of Beaune of the Côte-d'Or department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in Eastern France.

Mithraic monuments of Les Bolards

 

Lion of Les Bolards

The lion sculpture found near the entrance of the Mithraeum at Les Bolards is unique in its genre.

CIMRM 921

 

CIMRM 920

Remnants of a statue, found near the entrance.

CIMRM 920

 

CIMRM 922

Two small heads (H. 0.08-0.10) in Phrygian cap (Gallia, 308; 318 No. 41 and fig. 11), which seem to belong to a representation of Mithras tauroctone.

CIMRM 922

 

CIMRM 923

Small woman's head, crowned with flowers.

CIMRM 923

 

CIMRM 924

1) Small white marble column (H. 0.45 diam. 0.07), decorated in high-relief with a spiral-like twig with oak-leaves and acorns (Gallia, 318 No. 46 and fig. 10).

CIMRM 924

 

CIMRM 926

Fragments of a slab (Br. 0.33-0.44; originally 0.55).

CIMRM 926

 

CIMRM 927

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

CIMRM 927

 

CIMRM 928

Two fragments: basem.

CIMRM 928

 

CIMRM 929

The find of a building (D) about 30-40 mtrs S-W from the Mithraeum seem to point at a second sanctuary.

CIMRM 929

 

CIMRM 930

Red and white granite marble disc (diam. 0.70) surrounded by rays (Gallia, 312; 320 No. 48 and fig. 16).

CIMRM 930

 

CIMRM 931

"Vauthier a recolte en outre un buste en marbre blanc, tres fin, de Venus, semble-t-il, une tete de divinite casquee, probablement Minerve, et plusieurs menus debris de petites tetes feminines tres mutiIees.

CIMRM 931

 

CIMRM 932

Three fragments which form together the word: [ma]gister (Gallia, 314 and 328 No. 16d).

CIMRM 932

 

CIMRM 933

"Au cours de sondages qu'il a opere au eimetiere sud-est, Vauthier a trouve l'extremite d'un flambeau tenu par une main, dans la pose exacte des dadophores, et une main tenant entre Ie pouce et l'index une petite offrande (fruit ?), qui evoque les mains trouvees dans Ie temple de Mithra.

CIMRM 933

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