Double-sided relief from Mithraeum I, Stockstadt

TNMM 2065 ↔ CIMRM 1161

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: 1) 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). 2) Rock upon which the lower part of a person in a mantle (Saturnus or Oceanus).

B. Reverse: Fragment of a circular border in which were the signs of the Zodiac. The Ram and the Fishes are preserved. Inside this border there was probably a representation of the sacred repast of Mithras and Sol, but the relief is badly damaged. A vertical line may be a table-leg and the shapeless piece before it probably a lying bull.

Outside the border is the naked bust of a person in beard (Wind-god).