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Monumentum

Zodiac fragment from Salona area

Oval relief fragment from the outskirts of Split near ancient Salona, Dalmatia, preserving two zodiacal signs — probably from a border decoration of a Mithraic monument.
 
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026

TNMM 1823 ↔ CIMRM 1870

Fragment of an oval relief (H. 0.30 Br. 0.13 D. 0.07) found "près des chantiers navaux Vicko Krstulović" dans les faubourgs de Split, c'est-à-dire à quelques kms des murs de l'antique Salona". Split, Archaeological Museum.

Grabičević in AJ I 1954, 39 and fig. 11.

Two signs of the Zodiac separated from each other by a horizontal rim. a) the hind part of the bull. b) the twins in the Phrygian caps. The faces are damaged.

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