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Monumentum

Sculpted head from Florentia

Head formerly associated with Mithraic material but interpreted by Margarete Bieber as a dying Giant.
Marble head probably of a Mithras Tauroctonus.
Marble head probably of a Mithras Tauroctonus.Unknown.
 
The New Mithraeum
19 Jan 2026
Updated on May 2026

TNMM 1160 ↔ CIMRM 667

A marble head at Florence, Uffizi (MMM I 182 n. 6; Amelung, Führer Florenz, 95 No. 151) with sorrowful expression, is probably a head of Mithras tauroctone (Cumont in RA 1947, 8f with fig. 6; Becatti, Mitrei Ostia, PI. XXXIII, 2). Up till now this head has been interpreted as a "dying Alexander".

CIMRM II 667

Margarete Bieber in AJA 60, 1956, 312 interprets the head as belonging to a dying Giant.

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