The New Mithraeum
Updated on May 2026
White marble statue, in the Palazzo Corsini Lung'Arno at Florence. Find-spot unknown, possibly from the surrounding area.Of the tauroctony the upper body, the legs and the left arm of Mithras, grasping the bull's head at the nostrils, are preserved. Of the bull the hind quarter survives, but the tail's end and hind-legs are lost. The scorpion is still visible. The group is very restored; on the god's head is now a petasus.
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