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Monumentum

Sol bust corner from Cinçsor

Left upper corner of a marble tauroctony relief from Cinçsor, Dacia, preserving the bust of Sol with a whip and underneath it the head of a torchbearer.
 
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
Fragment of a marble relief (H. 0.055–0.085 Br. 0.11 D. 0.015), probably of the same find-spot, although the marble is different. Sibiu, Museum Brukenthal. Inv. No. 1558.L. upper corner with the bust of Sol and a whip; underneath it the head of a torchbearer in Phrygian cap (probably Cautopates); small part of the flying cloak of Mithras.

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