Monumentum
Epona relief from Heddernheim
Basalt relief from Mithraeum I at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, featuring a depiction of the goddess Epona, found in a Mithraic context
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
TNMM 1502 ↔ CIMRM 1094
Relief in basalt (H. 0.37 Br. 0.31 D. 0.10). Inv. No. 246.
Habel, Mithrastempel, 180 No. 4 and Pl. IV, 6; MMM II 367h and fig. 251; Sb. Ak. Wien 1852, Pl. 1, b; Wagner, Handbuch No. 256 Pl. LI; Roscher, Myth. Lex., 1291; S. Reinach, Epona, 39 and RA 1895 (I) 163, 309; 1898, 187; Lehner, Führer Wiesb., 57 No. 246; Esp. Rec. Germ., 92 No. 135 and fig.
Epona frontally sitting between two horses. In her l.h. she holds a cornucopia, with her r.h. she feeds one horse.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
