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Pottery depicting Mithras

This fragment of pottery depicting Mithras may have come from Gallia.

The New Mithraeum

11 Nov 2023

Updated on May 2026

According to Pagenstecher in JdI 27, 1912, 171f in the Museum at Calena there must be a fragment of pottery with a Mithras-representation, which should come from Gallia. "Kopf des stiertotenden Mithras. Die phrygische Mütze deckt das Haupt; der Sternübersäte Mantel flattert zurück. Über ihm der Rest eines gabelförmigen Gegenstandes, der Schweif eines Skorpions(?)".
Translation: Head of the bull-slaying Mithras. The Phrygian cap covers the head; the star-studded cloak flutters back. Above him is the remainder of a fork-shaped object, the tail of a scorpion (?).

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