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Monumentum

Rock-birth base with serpent from Sarmizegetusa

White marble rocky base encircled by a serpent from the Mithraeum at Sarmizegetusa, Dacia, probably the base of a rock-birth group.
Rock-birth base with serpent from Sarmizegetusa

Rock-birth base with serpent from Sarmizegetusa
CIMRM

 
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026

TNMM 1998 ↔ CIMRM 2151

Base in white marble (H. 0.50) from Sarmizegetusa. Deva, Museum. Unpublished. See fig. 582.

Rocky base encircled by a serpent (Mithras' rockbirth).

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