CIMRM 983

Attention: This entry may not have been reviewed and could contain incorrect data.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. The corpse had its arms tide behind its back and the wrists were bound together by means of an iron chain, a few links of which are preserved. Apparently this corpse had been put in this spelaeum by antagonists of the Mithras-cult, in order to polute it. This, however, does not at all justify the conclusion, that the followers of Mithras made human sacri…