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Monumentum

Bust of Mithras from Athens

Marble bust from the south-east slope of the Acropolis at Athens, from the Attic mountain Pentelikon, depicting a man with an uncovered breast and mantle; probably Mithras, though the head is lost.
 
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026

TNMM 2551 ↔ CIMRM 2346

Bust in marble from the Penthelikon (H. 0.15), found in Athens "auf der Höhe des südöstlichen Abhanges der Akropolis oberhalb des Theaters." Athens, National Museum.

von Prott in AM XXVII, 1902, 297ff and fig.

Bust of a man who wears a mantle over his shoulders; the breast is uncovered. The head is lost. In the round base an inscription:

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