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Locus

Florentia

Florentia was a Roman city in the Arno valley from which Florence originated.

Mithraic monuments of Florentia

 

Petrogeny of Florence

The sculpture of the birth of Mithras in Florence included the head of Oceanus.

CIMRM 666

 

CIMRM 664

White marble statue (H. 0.37 Br. 0.43).

CIMRM 664

 

CIMRM 667

A marble head at Florence, Uffizi (MMM I 182 n. 6; Amelung, Fuhrer Florenz, 95 No. 151) with sorrowful expression, is probably a head of Mithras tauroctone (Cumont in RA 1947, 8f with fig. 6; Becatti, Mitrei Ostia, PI. XXXIII, 2).

CIMRM 667

 

CIMRM 668

Rectangular marble relief (H. 0.68 L. 0.50 D. 0.09), the lower corners of which are broken off.

CIMRM 668

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