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Identification

The emergence of Mithras-Chronos-Phanes from the world-egg, drawing after a bas-relief, 2nd cent. CE.

Suggested readings and resources

“On the Astronomical Explanation of Phanes’s Relief at Modena”, Franz Cumont on “Mithraic Kronos, or the personification of infinite time,” from The Mysteries of Mithras (1903)