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Monumentum

Six bronze hatchets from Thun-Allmendingen

Set of six triangular bronze votive hatchets from Thun-Allmendingen, each inscribed with the name of a deity: Iovi, Neptuni, Minervae, Mercurio, Matribus, and Matroni; forming a unique ensemble of polytheistic dedications within a Mithraic context.

The New Mithraeum

28 May 2026

Six bronze hatchets (H. 0.08) of triangular shape.Lohner, 535 Pl. V; MMM II 505 and figs. 450–455; CIL XIII, 5158, 1–6; Tschumi, 159; Riese No. 2855; Stachelin, 486 fig. 131; Howald-Meyer, 268 No. 235.The hatchets bear the following inscriptions:

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