Monumentum
Mithraic Sol of Piazza Dante
The relief of Sol was found during the construction of Piazza Dante in Rome in 1874.
Sol of Piazza Dante
CIMRM
The New Mithraeum
12 Jan 2022
Updated on 13 Jan 2022
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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:
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.
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.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.