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Monumentum

Fruit offering from Linz

Carbonised plant remains (4,210 g) from the third room of the Mithraeum at Linz, ancient Lentia, comprising vine, prunes, hedge- and cornelberries, apple pips, walnuts, and millet; interpreted as a ritual food offering to the god.
 
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
In the third room of the Mithraeum remnants of various fruit were found which by the excavators are interpreted as a dedication to the god. The weight is 4210 grs. Vines (vitis vinifera); circles of prunes of several varieties; hedge- and cornelberries; applepips; walnuts; millet (H. L. Werneck in Naturkundl. Jahrb. d. Stadt Linz 1955; 9ff; Karnitsch, 252 No. 252).

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