Monumentum
Terra sigillata bowl depicting the Mithraic cult meal from Trier
This terra sigillata was found in 1926 in a grave on the Roman cemetery of St. Matthias, Trier. An eyelet indicates that it could have been hung on a wall.
The New Mithraeum
28 Jul 2021
Updated on Dec 2024
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…
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