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Monumentum

Arimanius from Al-Bahnasa

Limestone relief from ancient Oxyrhynchus depicting a four-winged lion-headed deity with keys, torch and three serpents, one of which emerges from the god’s mouth towards a burning altar.
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The New Mithraeum
21 May 2021
Updated on Jul 2026
Relief in limestone (H. 0.98-1.02 Br. 0.57-0.58 D. 0.08) broken in three parts. “Un ritrovamento clandestino dei cavatori di Sebach”. Museum of Greek and Roman Antiquities at Alexandria.
Breccia, Cronos mitriaco, 257ff with Pl. (see fig. 36); D. Levi in Hesperia XII, 1944, 275 fig. 5; Pettazzoni in AntC. XVIII, 1949, 271 and Pl. II, 4.
Standing Aion with four wings, one pair pointing upwards, the other pair pointing downwards. The god is represented as partly human partly animal. Around the lion’s head a nimbus with radiate crown, only four of which are visible owing to damage…

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