Monumentum
Marble relief of Mithras tauroktonos from Palazzo Vaccari, Via del Tritone, Rome
Marble relief formerly in the Palazzo Alberoni and then the Palazzo Vaccari on Via del Tritone, showing Mithras slaying the bull with the raven on the god's cloak, the serpent, dog and scorpion, and the busts of Sol and Luna in the upper corners.
The New Mithraeum
Updated on May 2026
Marble relief (H. 0.70 Br. 0.96). At first in the Palazzo Gioia, afterwards the Palazzo Alberoni, nowadays the Palazzo Vaccari, Via del Tritone beside the Church of SS. Angeli Custodi's, walled in the hall above the door. I did not find it again.Turre, Mon. Vet. Antii, 159 No. 1; Eichhorn, de deo Sole, Pl. 2; Zoega, Abh., 149 No. 21; Matz-v. Duhn III, 140 No. 3751; MMM II 218 No. 46.Mithras, slaying the bull. The raven is perched on the god's cloak. The serpent, the dog and the scorpion. In the upper corners the busts of Sol and Luna.
CIMRM II 533
Church of SS. Angeli Custodi.
CIMRM II 533
Church of SS. Angeli Custodi.
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