CIMRM Supplement - Bronze head of 'Mithras' (actually Attis) Sisak, Croatia
This head is included in an exhibition at Zagreb of artefacts from Siscia, modern Sisak. Normally it is held in the City Museum, Sisak.1
Glava boga Mitre ili Atisa, Kupa kod Siska, kraj 2./pocetak 3. stoljeca, bronca s bakrenim i srebrnim detaljima, 20,5 cm, Arheoloski muzej Zagreb
The head of the god Mithras or Attis, found at Sisak, end of the third century, bronze with copper and silver accents, 20.5 cm, in the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb
The item is classified as Attis by Vermaseren:2
121. Bronze bust (H. 0.20), from Sisak, Zagreb, Archaeological Museum, Inv. no 4585 (= B 53).
Brunsmid in VAHD3 13, 1913-1914, 229, no. 53; Popvic, Ant.Bronza4 99 no 126 with fig.; who interprets the object as Mithras; Selem5 90 f. no 17 and pl.XVIII; 206f.; M.J.Vermaseren, Cybele and Attis6, 143.
Beautiful head and bust of Attis with a phrygian cap resting on his curled hair.
Date: second century A.D.
Other Attis finds from Siscia are given in the CCCA.
| 1 | Website: http://www.muzej-sisak.hr/. |
| 2 | M. Vermaseren, Corpus cultus Cybelae Attidisque (=CCCA), vol. 6, Brill, 1977, p.38. Preview here. |
| 3 | I.e. "Vjesnik za Arheologiju i Historiju Dalmatinsku", Split. |
| 4 | I.e. Popvic, "Anticka Bronza u Jugoslavji", Beograd, 1969. |
| 5 | P. Selem, "Les religions orientales dans la Pannonie romain. Partie en Yugoslavie", EPRO 85, Leiden 1980. |
| 6 | M. Vermaseren, "Cybele and Attis: the myth and the cult", London, 1977. |
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