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Monumentum

Pottery fragment with lion and bull's head from Trier

A small pottery fragment of uncertain find-spot, probably from Augusta Treverorum (modern Trier) in Belgica, showing a lion walking to the right before a bull's head, with palm-like foliage, tentatively interpreted as Mithraic by Loeschcke but considered too doubtful by Vermaseren.
 
The New Mithraeum
Updated on May 2026
Fragment of pottery (diam. 0.095), find-spot unknown, probably Augusta Treverorum (modern Trier), Belgica.A lion with raised head and tail walks to the right. Before him, a bull's head frontally. Above the lion, five palm-like leaves emerge from a stem; under his tail, a leaf. Loeschcke interprets the lion as a fire-symbol before the head of the killed bull, but the Mithraic attribution is considered too doubtful to accept with certainty.

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