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Two-sided relief from Stockstadt

Fragmentary two-sided Mithraic relief depicting the rock-birth, Zodiac and other mythological scenes from Stockstadt.
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The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
Updated on Aug 2026
Fragments of a relief in white sandstone (H. 0.50 Br. 0.45 D. 0.12), found near z.Drexel, 82 No. 2 and Pl. XIV, 7 and 9; Esp. Rec. Germ., 182f No. 283 and fig. See figs. 305–306.The relief was sculptured on either side.A. Front: the l. lower corner with a border on which an inscription. Next to it two scenes separated from each other by horizontal rims: Naked Mithras being born from the rock. He pulls his r. leg out. In his r.h. a knife(?) and in his l.h., which rests upon the rock an oblong object (probably a torch). Rock upon which the lower part of a person in a mantle (Saturnus or Oceanus).B…

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