Monumentum
Torchbearer heads from Heddernheim
Two stone relief heads of torchbearers in Phrygian caps, from Mithraeum II at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, with traces of Mithras's mantle
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
TNMM 1515 ↔ CIMRM 1109
Two heads (H. 0.12) of a stone relief. Inv. No. 5484.
Habel, Mithrastempel, 195 No. 3–5 and Pl. III 6, 6a, 7, 7a; Hammer, Mithriaca, Pl. XVI, 8; MMM II 370f, c and figs. 268–271; Esp. Rec. Germ., 100 No. 149 and fig.
The heads of both torchbearers in Phrygian cap. Part of Mithras' mantle and of his r. arm. Fragments of the greater cult-relief.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
