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Monumentum

Statuette on base from Mithraeum III, Heddernheim

Fragment of a statuette on a sandstone base found in Mithraeum III at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, formerly in the Häberlin collection
Statuette on base from Mithraeum III, Heddernheim

Statuette on base from Mithraeum III, Heddernheim
CIMRM

 
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026

TNMM 1524 ↔ CIMRM 1125

Fragment of a statuette (H. 0.52) standing on a base in sandstone (H. 0.57 Br. 0.24 D. 0.10–0.16) found near h. Both in the Museum at Frankfurt; the statuette used to be in the Coll. Häberlin. Inv. No. 15792.

Wolff-Cumont, 58 and Pl. I, 5; MMM II 376i and fig. 287; RRS III 140, 7; Esp. Rec. Germ., 104 No. 156. See fig. 292.

Standing torchbearer, cross-legged and in Oriental dress. With both hands he holds the torch downwards; its foremost part is broken off. The feet are lost, but fragments of them are visible on the base.

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