Monumentum
Minerva relief from Heddernheim
Sandstone relief from Mithraeum I at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, depicting a standing Minerva resting her left hand on a shield while holding a lance
Minerva relief from HeddernheimCIMRM
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
TNMM 1495 ↔ CIMRM 1086
Relief in sandstone (H. 0.27 Br. 0.17 D. 0.05). Inv. No. 258.
Habel, Mithrastempel, 181, 17 and Pl. III, 3; Hammer, Mithriaca, Pl. XVI, 7; Lehner, Führer Wiesb., 56 No. 258; Esp. Rec. Germ., 98 No. 143 and fig. See fig. 278.
Standing Minerva who rests her l.h. on a shield. She holds a lance with the point downwards in her r.h. At her r. foot on the ground a helmet.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
