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The torchbearers are at work. Expect the occasional flicker while we tend the grotto.

Monumentum

CIMRM 532

Relief of bluish marble (H. about 0.66 Br. 1.02), walled in the back-wall of the Casino of the Villa Doria Pamphili.
 
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Attention: This entry may not have been reviewed and could contain incorrect data.Relief of bluish marble (H. about 0.66 Br. 1.02), walled in the back-wall of the Casino of the Villa Doria Pamphili. Zoega, Abh., 149 No. 18; Matz-v. Duhn III, 142 No. 3757; MMM II 217 No. 44 and fig. 48; Schiavo, Villa Doria, 66 fig. 52. In a cave Mithras, slaying the bull, whose tail ends in three ears. Beside the feet of Cautes (1), who leans against the rock-face, a cock and a pine-cone; beside Cautopates (r) a sheaf of corn and a sickle. The two torchbearers are standing cross-legged. The dog and the…
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