Monumentum
Mithraic rock and vase from Rusicade
Both objects have a snake winding itself around them.
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The New Mithraeum
15 Aug 2021
Updated on May 2026
TNMM 324 ↔ CIMRM 127 & 128
Marble block (H. 0.42). Conical rock with a snake, winding itself around it, lifting its head up in the air. In the back a hole (diam. 0.10, deep 0.10) has been drilled.
CIMRM 128
Marble vase (H. 0.60, Diam. 0.50). Vase with rounded cover, in which one big and two smaller semi-circular holes. A snake winds itself around the vase, holding its head near the largest aperture to drink from it. The tail is lacking.
References
Bertrand, Cat. Philippeville, 56f; Gsell-Bertrand, Mus. Philippeville, 50 and PI. VI, 7. Fig. 42 from the cast in the Museum at Algiers. Delamare, Expl. Alg., PI. 16 Nos. 11-12; Bertrand, Cat. Philippeville; MMM II No. 284d with figs. 333-4; Gsell-Bertrand, Mus. Philippeville, 49f and Pl. VI, 6. Fig. 42 from the cast in the Museum at Algiers.
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
