Endnote 3 – Solving the Mithraic Mysteries

Although the usual symbol for Aquarius in antiquity was a man carrying a vessel, it was sometimes symbolized by the vessel alone; for a convenient example see the Roman engraved gem illustrated in E.R. Goodenough, Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period, edited and abridged by Jacob Neusner (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1988), fig. 17.