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Standing figure in jack-boots from Heddernheim

Three basalt fragments of a standing figure in jack-boots from Mithraeum III at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, with traces of red paint on the loin-cloth
 
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026

TNMM 1525 ↔ CIMRM 1126

Three fragments of a statuette in basalt (H. 0.44 Br. 0.28 D. 0.12) found near o. Frankfurt, Museum. Inv. No. X16185.

Wolff-Cumont, 61 and Pl. I, 2; MMM II 378k and fig. 292; Esp. Rec. Germ., 106 No. 158.

Person standing on a base. He has jack-boots and a loin-cloth, on which traces of red colour. In his r.h. he holds a cornucopia. Next to his r. foot is a small base upon which an indistinct bell-shaped object. The breast, the head, the l. arm and l.h., the r. arm and the l. leg are lost. Dr. U. Fischer informs me that the body and the r.h. of the figure apparently have got lost.

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