Monumentum
Tauroctony marble from Mitreo Fagan
This sculpture of Mithras killing the bull was dedicated to the ’incomprehensible god’ by a certain priest called Gaius Valerius Heracles.
Tauroctonia del Mitreo Fagan, Ostia.
CIMRM 310
Vermaseren's Corpus
The New Mithraeum
15 May 2007
Updated on Jan 2025
Marble statue (H. 0.84 Br. 1.42), found ’at the entrance of the sanctuary’. Mus. Vaticana, Galleria Lapidaria XXXIII, 1. Mithras as a bullkiller. His flying cloak is adorned with seven stars around a crescent. The raven is seated on the bull’s tail, which ends in three ears. The dog with collar and the serpent with their heads near the wound; the scorpion in the usual place. On the lower border the inscription No. 311. End of the second cent. A.D.CIMRM 311CIL XIV 64; MMM II No. 138.Sig(num) indrepehensivilis dei / L(ucius) Sextius Karns et / C(aius) ValeriusHeracles sacerdos s(ua) p(ecunia) p(osuernnt)…
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