Monumentum
CIMRM 992
Limestone altar from the Trier baths, carved on four sides with a lion and serpent, flanked by Sol and Luna, and likely linked to a Mithraic context involving Hekate.
Altar from Trier.
Vor 1988
The New Mithraeum
21 Dec 2024
Updated on Apr 2026
Altar in limestone from the Jura (H. 0.315 Br. 0.16 D. 0.19), found "bei Verbreiterung der Moselbahn unweit der Uberflihrung des Weberbaches" near the Therms (1879). Treves, Provo Mus. Hettner, Steind., No. 143; MMM II 434 No. 321 and figs. 378-381; Esp. Rec. Gaule, VI, 220 No. 4924 and fig.; Loeschcke in Tr. H., 314ff and fig. 6. The front of the altar, worked on four sides, shows a lion, sitting to the right under a tree, into which a serpent is winding its way. Above its head a vase, without handles, and an arrow. On the reverse, two cypresses side by side. R. side: the dressed bust of Sol…
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