Terra sigillata bowl depicting the Mithraic cult meal from Trier

Terra-sigillata cup (H. 0.45 diam. 0.175), found in the Roman cimetery of St. Mathias in 1905. Treves, Provo Mus., Inv. No. 05.228.WsdZ XXV, 464f and PI. XIV, 12; Lehner in BJ 1924, 52; Loeschcke in Tr. H., 322f and fig. 12; Koepp, Germ. Rom., IV, 60 and fig. XXXVII, 1; Saxl, 22 and fig. 61 ; Cumont in RA 1946, 189 and fig. 3. See fig. 238.Scene of Sol in radiate crown and of Mithras in Eastern attire at the repast. On the table a plate in front of them, on which probably a fish and three loaves. A servant, having a cloth in his l.h., hands with the r.h. another loaf. Sol drinks with his uprai…