CIMRM 29 - Colossal head of Mithra. Nemrud Dag, Asia Minor
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CIMRM entry
29. Head of the Mithras-statue at Nemrud-Dagh.
Humann-Puchstein, Reisen, 295 and Pl. XXXI, I; MMM II 187 No. 2 and fig. 9; Goell in ILN 1955, 1094 ff gives a report about new excavations. Head of beardless Mithras in Phrygian cap, point of which is missing. Round the hem of the cap a diadem, omated with thunderbolts. Two hanging ribbons cover his ears.
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