The New Mithraeum
22 May 2021
Updated on May 2026
Head of the Mithras-statue at Nemrud-Dagh.
Head of beardless Mithras in Phrygian cap, point of which is missing. Round the hem of the cap a diadem, omated with thunderbolts. Two hanging ribbons cover his ears.
Humann-Puchstein Reisen 295 and Pl. XXXI I; MMM II 187 No. 2 and fig. 9; Goell in ILN 1955 1094 ff gives a report about new excavations.CIMRM II 29Miss Theresa Goell in AJA 62, 1958, 102f and Pl. 19 fig. 14 (cf. AJA 60, 1956, 383f): Syria XXVI, 222 n. 4) which is generally regarded as ’un témoin du culte d’Ahuramazda et de Mithra dans la montagne alaonite.’“In 1953…
Head of beardless Mithras in Phrygian cap, point of which is missing. Round the hem of the cap a diadem, omated with thunderbolts. Two hanging ribbons cover his ears.
Humann-Puchstein Reisen 295 and Pl. XXXI I; MMM II 187 No. 2 and fig. 9; Goell in ILN 1955 1094 ff gives a report about new excavations.CIMRM II 29Miss Theresa Goell in AJA 62, 1958, 102f and Pl. 19 fig. 14 (cf. AJA 60, 1956, 383f): Syria XXVI, 222 n. 4) which is generally regarded as ’un témoin du culte d’Ahuramazda et de Mithra dans la montagne alaonite.’“In 1953…
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