Monumentum
Mercury statue from Mithraeum I, Stockstadt
White sandstone statuette of Mercury from Mithraeum I at Stockstadt, standing in a shoulder cape, holding a purse and wearing wings in his hair
Mercury statue from Mithraeum I, StockstadtCIMRM
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
TNMM 2079 ↔ CIMRM 1176
Statuette in white sandstone (H. 0.93 Br. 0.27 D. 0.255), found in the r. back corner of the sanctuary.
Drexel, 86 No. 14 and Pl. XIV, 11; Phyllis Pray Bober in HTR 1946, 46; Ch. Picard in RA 1949, 88. See fig. 312.
Standing Mercury in shoulder-cape. He has two wings in his hair. He holds a purse in his r.h., which rests on the head of a ram, standing by his side. The god carries on his l. arm a child round which a serpent seems to be coiling. On the base an indistinct projection. The ram's head; Mercury's r. knee and cape; the child's head and breast are partly restored.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
