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Monumentum

Altar with snake from Heddernheim

Small sandstone altar from Mithraeum I at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, bearing a snake and cult imagery consistent with Mithraic worship

The New Mithraeum

27 May 2026

Altar in sandstone (H. 0.28 Br. 0.21 D. 0.15). Inv. No. 253.Habel, Mithrastempel, 181, 12 and Pl. V, 3 and 3a; Becker in Frankfurter Archiv II (6) 1854, 30; Klein in Ann. Ver. Nass. Alt. IV (3) 1855, 504; Lajard, Rech., Pl. CV, 8, 8a; MMM II 368g and fig. 259, 260; Lehner, Führer Wiesb., 57 No. 253; Esp. Rec. Germ., 98f No. 145 and fig. Wolff, Heddernheim, 58 No. 12 and Pl. IV, 9. See fig. 283.The front has an inscription (No. 1092). The reverse shows Mithras taurophorus in flying cloak and in Phrygian cap to the right. The bull's head trails over the ground (very much restored).

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