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Monumentum

Altar fragment with shell basin from Königshoffen

Dark red sandstone altar fragment from the Mithraeum at Königshoffen whose upper section, reconstructed from additional fragments, is shown to have supported a shell-shaped basin; dedicated to Soli invicto.
 
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026

TNMM 2235 ↔ CIMRM 1353

Fragment of an altar in dark red sandstone (H. 0.39 Br. 0.30) found together with the preceding No. From other fragments it becomes clear that the upper part supported a shell-like basin.

Forrer, MH 50 and Pl. XIV, 7; CIL XIII, 11615a.

... [S]oli in[victo].

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