White marble relief with bull and fig-tree from Italica

A small four-sided white marble relief of uncertain Mithraic attribution, found at Italica (modern Santiponce, near Seville), depicting a bull walking to the right on the front, a fig-tree on the back, five ears of wheat on the right side, and damaged vine tendrils with grapes on the left, which Vermaseren considers could equally be connected with the cult of Dionysos.

The New Mithraeum

Updated on May 2026

TNMM 1236 ↔ CIMRM 770

White marble relief, found in Italica (modern Santiponce, near Seville). Museo Arqueológico de Sevilla.

Front: a bull, walking to the right. Back: a tree, which seems to be a fig-tree. Right side: five corns of wheat. Left side: damaged, vine tendrils with grapes.

The monument may be Mithraic, but it is possible also to connect it with the cult of Dionysos.

References

Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae