Monumentum
Zodiac basin from Mithraeum I, Stockstadt
Two fragments of a large reddish sandstone basin from Mithraeum I at Stockstadt, its exterior decorated with the Zodiac including Gemini and Sagittarius
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
TNMM 2097 ↔ CIMRM 1196
Two fragments of a basin in reddish sandstone (diam. 1.00).
Drexel, 90 No. 45 and fig. 8.
Two fragments of the rim. On the outside the Zodiac was probably depicted (one of the Twins and the Archer are preserved); the inside is covered with a layer of lime so that it probably was a water-basin.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae