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Mithras rock-born of Dobrosloveni

This sculpture from Dobrosloveni, Romania, depicts the petrogenesis of Mithras, with a hole through the generative rock from which water flowed.
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The New Mithraeum
23 May 2021
Updated on May 2026
Statue in limestone (H. 0.70 Br. 0.35), found on the bank of the brook which runs through the town of Romula. Bucarest, National Museum, Inv. No. 613.Parvan in AAcRom (S. II) XXXVI, 1913, 57 No. 23 and Pl. VI, 3; AA 1913, 379f No. 23 and fig. 13; Saxl, fig. 155; Tudor, Oltenia, 312 and fig. 79. See fig. 590.Mithras whose neck and head are lost is being born from the rock. Both hands rest on the rock and he holds a knife in his l.h. and a torch in his r.h. In the upper part of the rock is a circular hole (diam. 0.09) by means of which the statue could be attached to a fountain or well…

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