Monumentum
Mercury relief from Heddernheim
Weathered sandstone relief from Mithraeum I at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, showing a standing Mercury whose body is covered by a shoulder cape
Mercury relief from HeddernheimCIMRM
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
TNMM 1498 ↔ CIMRM 1089
Relief in sandstone (H. 0.74 Br. 0.52 D. 0.17). Inv. No. 280.
Habel, Mithrastempel, 180, 5 and Pl. VI, 2; MMM II 367i and fig. 252; Lehner, Führer Wiesb., 57 No. 280; Esp. Rec. Germ., 99 No. 146 and fig. See fig. 281.
Weathered relief with standing Mercury whose body is covered only by a shoulder-cape. In his l.h. he holds a caduceus upwards; in his r.h. he holds a purse. Next to his feet a lying ram. Left to Mercury's winged head there is a bird.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
