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Monumentum

Twin bust reliefs from Cannstatt

Two rectangular sandstone reliefs from Zasenhausen near Cannstatt, ancient Clarenna, each depicting a male bust with astral symbols on the forehead, arranged in opposing directions.
 
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
Two rectangular reliefs found at Zasenhausen near Cannstatt in 1825. Stuttgart, Württembergisches Landesmuseum.Memminger in Württ. Jahrb. 1825, 69ff; Sixt in Württ. Vierteljahreshefte 1894, 218ff; Sixt, Stuttgart, Nos. 62 and 63; MMM II 423f No. 309 and figs. 355–356; Eisler, Weltenmantel II 455 fig. 59.In each relief a bust of a man is represented in opposite direction. On their foreheads they have a pair of wings and wind is blowing from their mouths. These Windgods were probably placed at the corners of a Mithraic relief. To the same relief belongs a fragment on which Sixt distinguishes…

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