Monumentum
Tauroctony relief from Soriano nel Cimino
A white marble tauroctony relief found near a Roman villa on the northern slope of Mount Ciminus near Soriano nel Cimino in Etruria, showing Mithras slaying the bull with dog, serpent and scorpion, the bull's tail ending in three ears of grain, the god's resting leg abnormally small.
CIMRM 657Vermaseren's Corpus
The New Mithraeum
Updated on May 2026
White marble relief, found near the house of the Fontana family in a Roman villa on the northern slope of Mount Ciminus, not far from a road crossing leading to the Tiber. Found in a basement of concrete full of rubbish.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 are present.
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