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Monumentum

Sol altar from Mithraeum I, Stockstadt

Yellow sandstone altar from Mithraeum I at Stockstadt bearing a bust of Sol in radiate crown holding a whip, with a pierced square hole at the base
 
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026

TNMM 2101 ↔ CIMRM 1201

Altar in yellow sandstone (H. 0.78 Br. 0.34 D. 0.195).

Drexel, 92 No. 50 and Pl. XV, 12. See fig. 315.

At the bottom is a square hole, which is pierced through the whole altar. Above it a bust of Sol in radiate crown; he holds in his r.h. a whip.

In the upper rim a vase between two rosettes.

On the l. side a patera with handle; on the r. side a cypress.

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