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Head of Mithras at Nemrud Dag

The colossal head has been identified as a solar god, Apollo-Mihr-Mithras-Helios-Hermes.
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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…

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