Monumentum
CIMRM 657
White marble relief (H. 0.58 Br. 0.62), found near the house of the Fontana family in a Roman villa, situated on the northern slope of the mountain Ciminus, not far from the crossing with a byroad, leading to the Tiber.
The New Mithraeum
TNMM 1156 ↔ CIMRM 657
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White marble relief (H. 0.58 Br. 0.62), found near the house of the Fontana family in a Roman villa, situated on the northern slope of the mountain Ciminus, not far from the crossing with a byroad, leading to the Tiber. It was found in a basement of concrete, which was full of rubbish. In the house of Fontana. Germano di Stanislao, Memorie, 95ff and PL IVa No.3; MM, 231; Cumont, Mithra en Etrurie, 102 with fig. 2; Taylor, Cults Etruria, 103. See fig. 184. Mithras slaying the bull, whose tail ends in three ears. The leg of the god, which rests on the animal, is abnormally smalL Dog, serpent and scorpion.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae