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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 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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