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Monumentum

Arm with stars and a swastika

This bronze arm, with stars and a swastika, was once thought to be part of a Mithras statuette but has since been dismissed as unrelated to the Mithras cult.

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The New Mithraeum

21 Dec 2024

Updated on May 2026

When the Oldfield-Collection was transferred to the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, it contained apart from the torchbearer from Antium (see No. 205) also a small bronze arm, which certainly comes from Italy. In AA 1900, 114 this arm is called the arm of a Mithras-statuette. At my visit to the Museum I have examined it and I owe fig. 206 to Dr. D. B. Harden, Keeper of the Museum. It is most certainly part of a bronze statuette, which however, does not belong to a Mithras. The arm is clothed with a tunica manicata, on which two stars and a swastica as ornaments. The position of the hand is not…

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