CIMRM 615

Low-relief in stone (H. 0.67 Br. 1.10). According to data, given by Paul Hartwig to Franz Cumont in 1901, it was found by a farmer near Rome together with numerous other ancient fragments. Bought in 1905 by the antiquary Triantaphyllos at Paris; at first at Innocenti’s, Via del Babuino, Rome. Vermaseren in AntC XX, 1951, 343ff and PI. I, 1. See fig. 175 procured by Franz Cumont. Mithras, slaying the bull, whose tail ends in three ears. The god is in Eastern attire and has a sheath at his side. The dog and the serpent with their heads near the abundantly flowing blood. The scorpion on the usu…