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Monumentum

Forged bronze Mithraic statuette

Bronze statuette bearing a Mithraic inscription, subsequently demonstrated by Anna Sadurska to be a modern forgery.

The New Mithraeum

29 May 2026

Anna Sadurska, L’histoire d’une falsification in Meander, VII, 1952, 436ff and pls; Fasti VIII, 1956 No. 698 publishes a false bronze statuette with an inscription dedicated to Mithras.

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