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Monumentum

Statue base and hooked sword from Saalburg

Cult statue base discovered with a hooked ritual sword in front of the sanctuary niche.
 
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026

TNMM 1463 ↔ CIMRM 1041

Base (H. 0.50 Br. 0.31) for a statue, found before the niche. (Jacobi, SW, Taf. XXIII). Under it lay a hamatus ensis, an iron sword with hooked point (L. 0.58 Br. 0.05). Cf. SW, Taf. XXXIX, 1.

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