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Monumentum

Hexagonal altar from Heddernheim

Unusual hexagonal sandstone altar from Mithraeum I at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, with six decorated sides of cult significance
 
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026

TNMM 1503 ↔ CIMRM 1095

Hexagonal altar in sandstone (H. 0.85 Br. of the sides 0.18).

Habel, Mithrastempel, 181 No. 11 and Pl. V, 1–1a; Lajard, Rech., Pl. CV, 5; 5a; MMM II 368p and figs. 257–258; Klein in Ann. Ver. Nass. Alt. IV (3) 1855, 502; Lehner, Schriften I, 235; Esp. Rec. Germ., 97 No. 141 and fig.

The side with the inscription is the front of the altar. This side as well as the two adjacent sides is decorated in the upper borders with two stars with seven rays. In the upper part the altar has a circular hollow (diam. 0.11) which communicates with another opening (H. 0.18 Br. 0.13) at the back. Espérandieu suggests an offertory box.

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