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Two lost tauroctony monuments from Palazzo Barberini and Palazzo Sanesio, Rome
Two lost Mithraic monuments from Rome: one documented in a 1738 catalogue of the Palazzo Barberini as a tauroctony group with scorpion, snake and dog, and another mentioned by Pirro Ligorio as a Mithras panel in the Palazzo del Duca di Sanseverino.
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Updated on May 2026
About these two monuments no further data are known.1) In Palazzo Barberini. A catalogue of 1738 describes: "un gruppo d'una figurina et un toro colco, e la figura con paneggiamento e pileo frigeo sul capo, colla manca tiene per le frocie il toro, e colla destra il coltello in atto d'ucciderlo con scorpione, serpe e cane." The monument was purchased and may not have been found in the terrain of the Palazzo, where a Mithraeum was later discovered.2) A tablet of Mithras is mentioned in the palace of the Duke of Sanseverino.
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