Monumentum
Fresco de Mitra y Sol, Dura Europos
Mithraeum.eu
16 May 2010
"On the south bench, fallen from the back wall, was found a fragmentary scene of Mithras with the Sun, painted in a large scale.
Mithras, on the right side reclining to the left, has wide eyes, curly hair, a Phrygian cap. He wears a Persian dress, a long sleeved tunic with embroidered 'manchettes', a leather (?) collar divided in squares, each square being adorned with a precious stone, an embroidered front stripe going down the tunic, and a leather belt divided like the collar in squares, with a precious stone set into the centre of each. From the shoulders hangs a cloak, fastened over the breast with a circular brooch. The right arm and hand of Mithras are behind the waist of Sol as if he were embracing him in a friendly gesture. In his left hand he holds a rhyton.
Sol is dressed in exactly the same manner as Mithras. His head is bare, encircled by a nimbus and turned right and up. His wide open eyes are gazing up in the direction of heaven".
Report, 103
Mithras, on the right side reclining to the left, has wide eyes, curly hair, a Phrygian cap. He wears a Persian dress, a long sleeved tunic with embroidered 'manchettes', a leather (?) collar divided in squares, each square being adorned with a precious stone, an embroidered front stripe going down the tunic, and a leather belt divided like the collar in squares, with a precious stone set into the centre of each. From the shoulders hangs a cloak, fastened over the breast with a circular brooch. The right arm and hand of Mithras are behind the waist of Sol as if he were embracing him in a friendly gesture. In his left hand he holds a rhyton.
Sol is dressed in exactly the same manner as Mithras. His head is bare, encircled by a nimbus and turned right and up. His wide open eyes are gazing up in the direction of heaven".
Report, 103
Data
- City Tal hal Hariri / Es-Sâlihiyeh
- Country Syria
- Current location Yale University Art Gallery
- Current city New Heaven (Connecticut)
- Current country United States of America
- Type
- Dating 210
- CIMRM 49
Related
- Monumentum Mithraeum of Dura Europos