CIMRM 354-355 - Square marble relief of Sol. Esquiline, Rome, Italy.
See also: CIMRM 349 Mithraeum; 350-351 Tauroctony; 352 Tauroctony; 353 Rockbirth; 354-355 Sol.
From Franz Cumont, The mysteries of Mithra, 1903, fig.43 (TMMM vol.2, p.202).
CIMRM entry
354.
Marble relief (H. 0.29 Br. 0.25 D. 0.03, originally square).Palazzo Conservatori, Inv. No. 2326.
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:
355.
C(auto)p(ati) Primus pater fecit.
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