Monumentum
Bound skeleton found on main relief fragment at Saarburg Mithraeum
A skeleton of a man aged approximately thirty to forty years, with arms tied behind his back and wrists bound with an iron chain, found lying on a fragment of the main relief at the back of the Mithraeum at Pons Saravi (modern Saarburg) in Belgica, possibly placed there by opponents of the cult.
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
Updated on May 2026
TNMM 1358 ↔ CIMRM 983
At the back of the Mithraeum at Pons Saravi (modern Saarburg), Belgica, on the spot of the main relief, the skeleton of a man of approximately thirty to forty years was found lying on a fragment of the relief. His arms were tied behind his back and his wrists were bound with an iron chain. This corpse was apparently deposited by antagonists of the Mithras cult to pollute the sanctuary.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
