Monumentum
Mithraic Sol of Piazza Dante
The relief of Sol was found during the construction of Piazza Dante in Rome in 1874.
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The New Mithraeum
12 Jan 2022
Updated on May 2026
TNMM 384 ↔ CIMRM 354 & 355
Marble relief (H. 0.29 Br. 0.25 D. 0.03, originally square). Palazzo Conservatori, Inv. No. 2326.
Upper part of Sol’s body in tunica and chlamys. Around his head an aureole and seven rays. He raises his r.h., with the palm turned full front. In his l.h. he carries a globe, behind which a whip.
On the reverse of both reliefs an inscription:
CIMRM 355
C(auto)p(ati) Primus pater fecit.
Main inscription
C[auto]p[ati] Primus pater fecit.
Primus, pater, made (this) for Cautopates.
References
Visconti, 241 and Pl. XXI, 3; Lanciani, Rome, 168; Maionica, No. IV; MMM fig. 29; RRR III, 195,4; Saxl, 31 and fig. 88. See fig. 101.
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
