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Sacred repast scene from Ratiaria

Marble relief fragment from Artschar, ancient Ratiaria in Moesia Superior, preserving a scene of Mithras in Phrygian cap and Sol reclining behind a tripod — part of the sacred banquet.
 
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
Fragment of a marble relief (H. 0.145 Br. 0.07 D. 0.035), found at Artschar. Sofia, National Museum.Kazarow in JOAI XIX–XX, 1919 (Beibl.) 47 No. 6 and fig. 32.Of the large Mithraic relief only one scene is partly preserved: Mithras in Phrygian cap and Sol reclining behind a tripod or table.In the bottom border part of an inscription:

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