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
TNMM 2201 ↔ CIMRM 1300
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 a representation of Mithras who gathers the leaves from a tree (MMM I 365 No. 309).
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
