Mercury statue from Mithraeum I, Stockstadt

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.