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Monumentum

Rock-birth statue from Schachadorf

Conglomerate statue from a layer of fire debris in the Mithraeum at Schachadorf, Noricum, depicting a naked Mithras without Phrygian cap being born from the rock with upraised hands; a coiling serpent is visible below.
 
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026

TNMM 1567 ↔ CIMRM 1410

Statue in conglomerate (H. 0.59 Br. 0.39 D. 0.17) found in a layer of fire-traces. Museum at Linz (Lap. No. 34).

Naked Mithras without the Phrygian cap being born from the rock with upraised hands in which he holds some objects which are not clearly discernible. A snake creeps upwards.

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