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Monumentum

Cult refuse pit from Heddernheim

Assemblage of cult refuse from shaft M at Mithraeum I, Heddernheim, ancient Nida, including pottery, bones, a boar's tooth, and a bronze ring with Mercury
 
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026

TNMM 1512 ↔ CIMRM 1105

Numerous fragments of rubbish were found in shaft M: fragments of brick and of cement; bones of birds; teeth e.g. a tooth of a wild boar, the top of which has been transpierced; different forms of yellow, black and red pottery; an oxydized iron plate, a bronze ring decorated with a standing Mercury.

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