CIMRM 2134 - Yellowish marble rock-birth. Sarmizegetusa, Dacia.
CIMRM entry
2134.
Statue in yellowish marble (H. 0.67 Br. 0.365).
Studniczka, 224 fig. 69; Kiraly, 26 No. 80 and PI. IX, 2; MMM Il 302 No. 177 and fig. 159; RRS III 140, 1; Floca in ED 1935,218 fig. 3. See fig. 579.
Youthful Mithras is being born from the rock which is encircled by a serpent, The serpent's head is visible next to the r. thigh of the god. Mithras is in Phrygian cap, his arms are lost.
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