Monumentum
Head of Mithras at Nemrud Dag
The colossal head has been identified as a solar god, Apollo-Mihr-Mithras-Helios-Hermes.
Head of Mithras with the body sculptures behind.
Mr Hicks46
Head of Mithras (left).
Zorka Sojka
Head of Mithras at Nemrut Dag
Herbert Frank
Head of Antiochus I of Commagene.
Adrian Farwell
Head of Antiochus I of Commagene in mount Nemrud Dag.
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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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.
Mount Nemrut (Armenian: Նեմրութ լեռ) is a mountain in southeastern Turkey, notable for the summit where a number of large statues are erected around what is assumed to be a royal tomb from the 1st century BC. It is referred as the pantheon of the Armenian gods…
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.
Mount Nemrut (Armenian: Նեմրութ լեռ) is a mountain in southeastern Turkey, notable for the summit where a number of large statues are erected around what is assumed to be a royal tomb from the 1st century BC. It is referred as the pantheon of the Armenian gods…
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