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Mithras crowning Sol relief from Dacia

Marble relief fragment from Dacia, depicting Mithras placing a Phrygian cap on the kneeling Sol — one of the more unusual variants of the Mithraic iconographic programme.
Mithras crowning Sol relief from Dacia
Mithras crowning Sol relief from DaciaCIMRM
 
The New Mithraeum
29 May 2026

TNMM 2562 ↔ CIMRM 2190

Fragment of a marble relief (H. 0.086 Br. 0.074). Bucarest, Coll. Severeanu. See fig. 601.

L. bottom corner of a relief with the representation of standing Mithras who puts a Phrygian cap on the head of Sol kneeling before him. Sol holds both hands before his face. Mithras' head is lost.

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