Monumentum
Marble relief of Mithras grasping the bull's horn from Palazzo Giustiniani, Rome
Marble relief formerly in the Palazzo Giustiniani showing Mithras slaying the bull while grasping one of its horns, with the dog, serpent, scorpion and torchbearers, and a krater before the feet of Cautes.
The New Mithraeum
Updated on May 2026
Relief (H. 0.82 Br. 1.66). Was in 1793 in Palazzo Giustiniani. According to an information of Franz Cumont, it was found when the building was fitted up as an office of the Senate in 1929.MMM II 230 No. 68 and fig. 61.Mithras, slaying the bull while he is grasping it at one of its horns. The dog with its head near the wound; the serpent and the scorpion and the torchbearers on the usual places. Before the feet of Cautes (l) a krater on the ground. Both torchbearers in Eastern attire and cross-legged.
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