Monumentum
Rock-birth relief from Salona
White limestone relief fragment from the walls of Salona, Dalmatia, found in 1906, depicting naked Mithras being born from the rock with a dagger in his right hand and a torch in his left.
Rock-birth relief from SalonaCIMRM
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
TNMM 1818 ↔ CIMRM 1865
Fragment of a relief in white limestone (H. 0.145 Br. 0.15 D. 0.03) found in the walls of ancient Salona in 1906. Split, Archaeological Museum.
Grabičević in AJ I 1954, 38 No. 22 and fig. 5. See fig. 480.
Naked Mithras born from the rock; in his upraised r.h. a dagger and in his l.h. a torch. The god has a Phrygian cap. Under the rock part of a lion's head.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
