This lion-headed figure from Nida, present-day Frankfurt-Heddernheim, holds a key and a shovel in his hands.
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The New Mithraeum
22 May 2021
Updated on May 2026
Relief in sandstone (H. 0.60 Br. 0.225–0.25 D. 0.12), originally standing in the back of the cult-niche. Formerly Coll. Häberlin, now Frankfurt, Museum Inv. No. 15791.Wolff-Cumont, 54 and Pl. I, 6; MMM II 375f and fig. 286; Esp. Rec. Germ., 104 No. 155; Leipoldt, fig. 40. See fig. 291.Standing person with lion’s head (Aion) whose body is only covered by a loin-cloth. On his r. leg the tail is visible of a serpent coiling around his body and resting its head on Aion’s l. shoulder. On the breast a mask with swollen jaws (Medusa?). He holds in his r.h. a key and in his l.h. a shovel.A lion-headed figure [Aion (?…
The relief of Mithras slaying the bull from Nida's Mithraeum III was found in two pieces in 1887, destroyed during an air raid on Frankfurt in 1944, and restored in 1986.