Altar with Mithras rock-birth of Nida
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The stele is decorated on three sides with reliefs; the back is partially rough. The reliefs are divided into two parts by a horizontal rim.
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The front has the form of an aedicola. In a niche with two Corinthian columns is the representation of Mithras' rockbirth. In his upraised hands a torch (l.h.) and a knife (r.h.); no Phrygian cap. The pediment has on its cornice an inscription, which is continued on the horizontal rim and on the pedestal. In the pediment a leaf ornament.Brothers
Data
- Location
Mithraea of Heddernheim, Nida, Germania superior (Gallia) Heddernheim, Frankfurt (Germany) - Current location
Archäologisches Museum Frankfurt [X 9354 (1887)] Frankfurt am Main (Germany) - Type
- Labels
- Dimensions H. 915 W. 300 D. 22 cm
- Discovery date 1887
- Material Stone Basalt
- Canonical URI
mithraeum.eu/monument/388
- CIMRM 1127
- CIL XIII 7369
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