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Monumentum

Lion hind leg and serpent from Sarmizegetusa

Three white limestone fragments from the Mithraeum at Sarmizegetusa, Dacia, preserving the hind leg of a lion in a vertical position and a serpent apparently moving towards a rock — possibly a rock-birth scene.

The New Mithraeum

27 May 2026

Three fragments of a relief in white limestone (H. 0.115 Br. 0.052 D. 0.02).Kiraly, 55f No. 138.The hind leg of a lion which was probably represented in a vertical position. Above it a serpent which seems to go towards a rock (Mithras' rockbirth?).

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