Monumentum
Altar with bust of Sol
Weathered limestone altar decorated with the radiate bust of Sol.
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
TNMM 1454 ↔ CIMRM 1007
Badly weathered altar in limestone (H. 0.60 Br. 0.27–0.305 D. 0.12).
Steiner, 75 No. 3 (438) and fig. 7.
The altar is standing upon a somewhat hollowed-out base in tuffo (H. 0.30 Br. 0.56 D. 0.27). In the pediment the bust of Sol in seven rays.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
