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Locus

Pons Saravi

Sarrebourg is a commune of northeastern France. In 1895 a Mithraeum was discovered at Sarrebourg at the mouth of the pass leading from the Vosges Mountains.

Brothers active in Pons Saravi

Mithraic monuments of Pons Saravi

 

Mithréum de Sarrebourg

The Mithraeum of Sarrebourg was discovered during operatoins for military buldings.

CIMRM 965

 

Tauroctony of Sarrebourg

The Tauroctony of Saarbourg (Sarrebourg, ancient Pons Sarravi), France, contains most of Mithras deeds known in a single relief.

CIMRM 966

 

Cautes and Cautopates of Sarrebourg

The base of these sandstone reliefs bears an inscription referring to a certain Marcellius Marianus.

CIMRM 968

 

CIMRM 970

The r.

CIMRM 970

 

CIMRM 971

The upper part of a dressed male person (H. 0.20 Br. 0.23 D. 0.105) with a wreath or broad ring in his r.

CIMRM 971

 

CIMRM 972

Fragment (H. 0.75 Br. 0.15 D. 0.12) of a standing, naked man with a bird (cock?) on his 1.

CIMRM 972

 

CIMRM 973

Naked torso (H. 0.145 Br. 0.16 D. 0.08) of a robust body.

CIMRM 973

 

CIMRM 974

Two female heads (H. 0.165 Br. 0.14 D.O.12; H. 0.13 Br. 0.085 D. 0.09).

CIMRM 974

 

CIMRM 975

A hand (H. 0.18 Br. 0.12) of more than natural size.

CIMRM 975

 

CIMRM 976

Several bases and altars were discovered, mostly fragmentary and without any indication.

CIMRM 976

 

CIMRM 977

elL XIII 4451; MMM II No.

CIMRM 977

 

CIMRM 978

Fragment of a trachyte brazier.

CIMRM 978

 

CIMRM 979

1) A broad stone vase (H. 0.45 diam. 0.15) with a high foot and two ears near the mouth.

CIMRM 979

 

CIMRM 980

Numerous bones of animals, such as birds (mostly hens), beasts of prey (jaw- bones and fangs of wolves, foxes and martens) and the muzzle of a wild boar.

CIMRM 980

 

CIMRM 981

Among the remnants of numerous lamps, a small terracotta lamp (H. 0.038 Br. 0.07) draws the attention.

CIMRM 981

 

CIMRM 982

At about 20 mtrs from the Mithraeum, two altars, dedicated to Sucellus and Nantosvelta, have been found (Michaelis, 154ff; S. Reinach in Revue celtique, XVII, 1896, 45ff; Keune in WsdZ 1896, 340f; Fisenne, 168ff).

CIMRM 982

 

CIMRM 983

In the back of the sanctuary, on the spot of the main relief, there lay on a fragment of this monument the skeleton of a man of about thirty or fourty years old.

CIMRM 983

 

CIMRM 984

A collection of 284 coins from 254 A.

CIMRM 984

Inscriptions of Pons Saravi

In h(onorem) d(omus) d(ivinae) deo inv[ict]o Marceleus Marianus / d(e) / s(uo) p(osuit)

Tauroctony of Sarrebourg

ar / ... marli ... Marc/ellius Maria[nu]s de / suo posuit.

Cautes and Cautopates of Sarrebourg

References

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