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Mithras head with torchbearer shoulder from Sarmizegetusa

Marble fragment from the Mithraeum at Sarmizegetusa, Dacia, preserving a head of Mithras in Phrygian cap; a small elevation at the side may be the shoulder of a torchbearer.
 
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026

TNMM 1971 ↔ CIMRM 2118

Fragment of a relief (H. 0.085 Br. 0.025–0.095 D. 0.015–0.02).

Kiraly, 63 No. 152.

Head of Mithras in Phrygian cap. A small elevation may be the shoulder of a torchbearer (Kiraly).

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