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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.
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The New Mithraeum
15 May 2007
Updated on Jun 2026
Marble statue (H. 0.84 Br. 1.42), found “at the entrance of the sanctuary”. Mus. Vaticana, Galleria Lapidaria XXXIII, 1.Labus, Bibl. It., III, 54 Taf. III; Fea, Rel. Ostia, 44; A. Nibby, Viaggio antiquario a Ostia, Roma 1829, 75; Zoega, Abh., 146f No. 2 and Taf. V, 15; Gerhard-Platner, 32 No. 25; Lajard, Intr., Pl. LXXX, 2; Visconti in Ann. Ist. 1864, 149; MMMII 237f No. 79 and fig. 67; Amelung, Skulpt. Vat., I (2) 275 No. 144b and Taf. 30; RRS II 476, 3; Paschetto in Bilychnis1912, 466f, fig. 1 = Ostia, 385 and fig. 33; Becatti, 119 and Pl. XXXIV, 2. Fig. 84 placed at my disposal by the…

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