[846]. Op. cit. II. p. 350, f (2) of Osterburken.
[847]. It is not invariable, as the sculptor was sometimes evidently governed by considerations of space.
[848]. Op. cit. II. p. 350, f (5) of Osterburken. Cf. Mon. 245, Pl. V (Neuenheim) and Mon. 251, Pl. VII (Heddernheim).
[849]. West, Pahlavi Texts, Pt 1, S.B.E. p. 20 (Bundahish); Porphyry, de antro nympharum, c. 18. Cf. Döllinger, J. und H. I. p. 419, and Tiele, Religion of the Iranian Peoples (Eng. ed.), Bombay, 1912, Pt 1, p. 113.
[850]. Cumont, T. et M. II. p. 298, Fig. 154 (Sarmizegetusa); p. 309, Fig. 167 (Apulum); p. 326, Fig. 193 (Sissek). Döllinger, J. und H. I. p. 141, thinks this cup-shaped boat represents the Moon. But see against this Cumont, op. cit. I. pp. 167, 168.
[851]. Cumont, T. et M. II. p. 515 and Pl. IX, Mon. 273 ter d (8) (Sarrebourg). Cf. ibid. II. p. 310, Fig. 168, Mon. 192 bis b (7), also I. p. 167 and n. 5.
[852]. Op. cit. II. p. 346, e (1) and Pl. V (Neuenheim); II. p. 350, f (3) (Osterburken); II. p. 339, b (6) and Pl. IV (Mauls).
[853]. Op. cit. II. p. 309, a (1) (Apulum); II. p. 326, b (3) and Fig. 193 (Sissek).
[854]. Op. cit. II. p. 346, e (4) (Neuenheim); II. p. 309, a (2) (Apulum); II. p. 515, d (10) (Sarrebourg).
[855]. Cumont, op. cit. I. p. 304, puts these scenes in a slightly different order. That followed here is that adopted in the Mithraeum at Heddernheim, op. cit. II. Pl. VII, where the sequence is fairly plain.