Male figure with offerings from Dieburg
TNMM 412 ↔ CIMRM 1255 & 1256
Relief in bright sandstone (H. 0.475 Br. 0.285 D. 0.15) found in the pit of the sanctuary. Inv. No. 3638/52.
Standing male figure whose body is only partly dressed in a mantle. He has footwear. With his r.h. he holds a patera with offerings over an altar and in his l.h. he holds a cornucopia. The head, the r.h. and the upper part of the cornucopia are lost. Above the patera a kneeling child is partly visible. Next to his l. foot there is a basket with fruit on which a child is sleeping, its head resting on the crossed arms.
In the base an inscription:
CIMRM 1256
L.H. 0.01-0.02.
D(eo) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / Priscinius Sedulius / Primulus fratris (sic!) / v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) l(aetus) m(erito).
l. 2: Sedulius cf. No. 1267.
l. 3: fratris instead of fratres.
Main inscription
References
Behn 3lf No. 7 and fig. 32. See fig. 330. Finke in BRGK XVII 192760 No. 185.
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
