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Monumentum

Serpent-vase from Windisch

Dark-red clay vase from the refuse pit of the Roman camp at Windisch, ancient Vindonissa, with three handles each encircled by a coiling serpent; a vessel type closely associated with Mithraic ritual.

The New Mithraeum

28 May 2026

Vase in dark-red clay (H. 0.30 diam. 0.30–0.10) found at Aargau in the pit for refuse of the Roman Camp in 1908.Fröhlich in ASA (N.F.) XI, 1909, 52ff and fig. 17; cf. Schultesz in AA 24, 1909, 268; AA 25, 1910, 365; AJA XV, 1911, 104; Heuberger, Argovia 1910 Pl. XIX, Staehelin, Schweiz³, 551 and figs. 160–161.Vase with three handles, a serpent coiling round each of them and resting its head on the rim. The body of the vase is decorated with small hearts in barbotine. Fragments of another similar vase came to light.The fact that all other finds date from the end of the first cent. A.D…

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