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Figure approaching rock from Sarmizegetusa

White marble relief fragment from the Mithraeum at Sarmizegetusa, Dacia, probably belonging to the preceding piece, depicting a man walking to the right stretching his hand towards a rock.
Figure approaching rock from Sarmizegetusa

Figure approaching rock from Sarmizegetusa
CIMRM

 
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026

TNMM 1967 ↔ CIMRM 2114

Fragment of a white marble relief (H. 0.05 Br. 0.04 D. 0.02–0.015). Probably belonging to the preceding No.

Studniczka, No. 39; Kiraly, 62 No. 148; MMM II 301 No. 175. See fig. 573.

A man walking to the r. The head is lost. He stretches out his hand to another person of whom only part of a leg is visible (Mithras as archer; water-miracle). Under the upper border are traces of a torch, probably of Cautes near Mithras as a bullkiller.

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