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Monumentum

Fragment of Mithras tauroktonos relief from Villa Wolkonsky, Rome

Fragment of a relief from the Villa Wolkonsky showing the usual representation of Mithras slaying the bull, with the dog, serpent and scorpion; the bull's head, Mithras' head and right foot are lost.
 
The New Mithraeum
Updated on May 2026
Fragment of a relief. Villa Wolkonsky.Matz-v. Duhn III, 140 No. 3752; MMM II 219f No. 52.The usual representation of Mithras, slaying the bull. The dog, the serpent and the scorpion. On the base some vague letters. The bull's head, Mithras' head and r. foot are lost.

CIMRM II 539
CIL VI 36832; Lugli, Fontes IV, 46 No. 38 who wrongly puts it under the heading Regio V.m. v. . . . . . .olis.

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