CIMRM 1275 - Relief in red sandstone. Lopodunum / Ladenburg, Germany.

See also this relief from Ladenburg, discovered after CIMRM.

Ladenburg is now a suburb of Heidelberg. Discoveries from here are mostly in the Lobdengau Museum in Ladenburg.

CIMRM entry

LOPODUNUM 1275. Relief in red sandstone (H. 0.86 Br. 0.79 D. 0.20), found at Mannheim before 1599. At first at Ladenburg, from 1763 at Mannheim in the Grossherz. Antiquarium, now in the Zeughaus. We are very grateful to Dr. L. W. Bühm, the Director of the Reiss Museum, for the photograph. See fig. 334. Freher, Or. Pal., c. 19; Fladt, Pf. Alt., 10f; Cullmann, Spicilegium, 98ff and fig. II, 1; Lamey, Act. Pal., I 1766,204 and Pl. II, 3; Creuzer, Symbol., 13, 262 and Pl. IV, 11 (trad. Guigniant, Pl. XXVII No. 133); Andreae, Lupodunum, 1772, 11; Seel, 281 and Pl. XIIIc; N. Müller, Mithras 11 and Pl. I, 3; Wagner, Handbuch, 385 No. 701; Lajard, Intr., Pl. LXXXIV, 1; Hammer, Mithriaca, 95 No. 20; Fickler-Christ, Mon. Heidelb., No. 20a; Stark, Zwei Mithräen,28; JVA XLIV, 1866, 11ff; RJb XLVI, 1869,23 and Pl. IV, 1; MMM II 343f. No. 244 and fig. 218; Haug, Denkst. Mannheim, 14 No. 6; Walter, Gesch. Mannheims, I, 17 (fig.); Wagner-Haug, Fundst., II 238f No. 150 and fig. 207; Forrer, MH, fig. 81; Koepp, Germ. Rom. IV2, 58 and Pl. XXXV, 3; Ferri, Arte Reno, 84 fig. 24; Esp. Rec. Germ. 262f No. 408 and fig.; LeRoy Campbell in Berytus XI, 1954,49 No. 179; Vermaseren in Mannheimer Hefte 1958, 16ff and figs. Mithras only in a flying cloak grasps the bull by one of the horns in order to kill him. A small part of the bull's snout is lost; above it the raven; no scorpion. A standing frontal figure dressed in shoulder cape holds the bull's tail with his l.h. and with his r.h. he lifts a curved object (Cautes). He is not cross-legged. Behind him a boar and under his feet a row of seven altars. Underneath the main scene is a large serpent holding its head above a krater. Next to it an altar above which a standing person holds an incense-box. He has a jug in his l.h. In the r. bottom corner sits a dog, which raises its head towards Mithras.