Monumentum
Torchbearer head from Heddernheim
Sandstone fragment from Mithraeum I at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, probably the damaged head of a torchbearer, often misidentified as Mercury.
Torchbearer head from Heddernheim.
The New Mithraeum
26 May 2026
Fragment in sandstone (H. 0.17). Inv. No. 5481.Habel, Mithrastempel, 180, 8 and Pl. VII, 2; MMM II 368m and fig. 255; Esp. Rec. Germ., 98 No. 144. See fig. 282.Damaged head probably of a torchbearer. The head is generally wrongly interpreted as that of a Mercury with a ribbon with two wings in his hair.
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