Monumentum
Rock-birth base fragment with serpent from Königshoffen
Dark red sandstone fragment from the Mithraeum at Königshoffen preserving part of a rock base with a serpent's tail; the white-painted front suggests a rock-birth composition.
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
TNMM 2228 ↔ CIMRM 1346
Fragment in dark red sandstone (H. 0.20) found near 2.
Forrer, MH 45 and fig. 46.
Fragment of a base on which part of a rock and of the tail of a serpent. The front is painted white: Mithras' rockbirth?
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
