Monumentum
Mithraic rock and vase of Rusicade
Both objects have a snake winding itself around them.
The New Mithraeum
15 Aug 2021
Updated on 17 Mar 2022
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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.
Bertrand, Cat. Philippeville, 56f; Gsell-Bertrand, Mus. Philippeville, 50 and PI. VI, 7. Fig. 42 from the cast in the Museum at Algiers.