Monumentum
Head of Mithras from Nemrud Dag
The colossal head has been identified as a solar god, Apollo-Mihr-Mithras-Helios-Hermes.
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22 May 2021
Updated on 18 Jan 2022
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Adrian Farwell
Lateral view of Mithras-Helios-Sol head Mount Nemrut
exsimile
West Terrace on Mount Nemrut, the goddess of Commagene still has her head on the shoulders - from Humann, Carl i Puchstein, Otto
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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.
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.
Data
- Location
Nemrut Dağı, CappadociaNemrut Dag, Mont Nemrut (Turkey) - Type
- Dating 62 BC
- Canonical URI
mithraeum.eu/monument/275
- CIMRM 29
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