Monumentum
Terracotta offertory plate from Friedberg
Ritual terracotta offering plate decorated with a serpent and traces of white paint from the Friedberg Mithraeum.
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
TNMM 1477 ↔ CIMRM 1060
Fragments of a brown-yellow offertory plate in terracotta (H. 0.08 diam. 0.385–0.315), found in the N-W corner of the sanctuary. Friedberg, Townhall.
Goldmann, 293f and Pl. I, 4–5; MMM II 359 No. 248i and fig. 238–239.
The head and the tail of a serpent are visible on its rim. A small elevation ending in a point may be a pine-cone. Traces of white painting.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
