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Monumentum

Sol bust with seven rays from Sarmizegetusa

Fragment of a white marble statuette from the Mithraeum at Sarmizegetusa, Dacia, preserving the dressed bust of Sol in a nimbus and seven-rayed crown with traces of red colour; two bolt-holes at the bottom for attachment.
 
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
Fragment of a white marble statuette (H. 0.10).Studniczka, 212 No. 26; Kiraly, 44 No. 121 and Pl. XV, 2; MMM II 291f No. 162 and fig. 145. See fig. 578.Dressed bust of Sol in a nimbus and in a crown of seven rays on which traces of red colour. Two bore-holes at the end of the curls.

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