Monumentum
Sculptural fragments with foot and lion head from the Mérida Mithraeum
Sculptural fragments from the Mithraeum at Augusta Emerita (modern Mérida), comprising a naked foot beside tree-trunk remnants and fragments of a marble seat or table decorated with an acanthus-leaf from which emerge the head and neck of a lion.
The New Mithraeum
Updated on May 2026
TNMM 1241 ↔ CIMRM 791
Sculptural fragments from Augusta Emerita (modern Mérida).
A naked foot beside the remnants of a tree-trunk (Inv. No. 576), and remnants of a marble seat or table on which an acanthus-leaf appears, with the head and neck of a lion emerging from it (Inv. Nos. 1086 and 1095).
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae