The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
The upper part of a yellowish marble relief (H. 0.22–0.15 Br. 0.41 D. 0.03) in two fragments. Bucarest, National Museum. Inv. No. L. 709.Parvan in AAcRom. 1914, 515, 4 (546, 4) and Pl. VII, 2; Vulpe, Hist. anc. Dobr., Pl. XXXV, fig. 60. See fig. 635. LeRoy Campbell in Berytus XI, 1954, 50 No. 357.The upper part of Mithras as a bullkiller with part of the dog. Behind the dog an amphora. Part of the grotto's border. Outside the grotto the heads of the torchbearers in Phrygian cap. Of Cautes (l) the top of the upraised torch is visible. Above him the raven and behind it the bull in a small boat…
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