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Monumentum

Rock-birth statue from Mackwiller

Stone statue fragments from the Mithraeum at Mackwiller depicting Mithras's rock-birth, preserving the head in Phrygian cap, torso, and right hand holding part of a torch.
 
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026

TNMM 2216 ↔ CIMRM 1333

Fragments of a statue in greyish stone.

CRAI 1955, 406 and fig. 4; CAAAH 1957, 64 No. 3 figs. 19, 24a, 25, 26.

Mithras' rockbirth. The head in Phrygian cap, the torso, r.h. with part of the torch. Part of the base.

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