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Terracotta 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
Updated on Aug 2026
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.

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