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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