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Mithraic relief from Rome

Mithraic relief from Rome reproduced in figure 169 of the corpus.
Fragment of tauroctony.CIMRM
 
The New Mithraeum
3 Jan 2025
Updated on May 2026

TNMM 1112 ↔ CIMRM 597

Fragment of a greyish marble relief (H. 0.765 Br. 0.25-0.37 D. 0.085). At first in the Jericho’s workshop near the Piazza del Populo at Rome; since 1884 in the Nationalmuseet at Copenhague, Inv. No. 2229.

Mithras as a bullkiller. Of the bull only a hoof of a hind-leg; of the god a foot and a part of his flying cloak have been preserved. On the rocky border the tail of the raven. Behind the bull, Cautes with upraised torch in Eastern attire and cross- legged. In the 1. upper corner the head of Sol in aureol and crown of seven rays.

MMM 66

Fragment d’un bas-relief de marbre blanc [H. 0m,75, L. en bas 0m,25, en haut 0m,37], autrefois dans l’atelier Jerichau près de la piazza del popolo à Rome, maintenant à Copenhague, au musée des antiques, Prinsenspalais.

Décrit : Matz Duhn, n° 3758. Le Dr Blinkenberg, du musée de Copenhague, a bien voulu comparer pour moi cette inscription avec l’original.

Extrémité gauche d’une représentation de Mithra tauroctone. Sont conservés : une des jambes de derrière du taureau, et à gauche l’un des porte-flambeau tenant à deux mains une grosse torche élevée; au-dessus de la grotte, la tête nimbée et radiée de Sol. On ne voit rien du vêtement de Mithra.

CIMRM II 597

See fig. 169.

References

Matz-v. Duhn III, 142 No. 3758; Davidson in AAR II, 1881, 12 No.4 and fig.; JHS 1888, 32f; MMM II 229 No. 66. See fig. 171, procured by H. Moller.

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