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Monumentum

Two-sided relief of Fiano Romano

The marble shows Mithras slaying the bull, on one side, and Sol and Mithras feasting on a bull skin, on the other.
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The New Mithraeum
1 Jul 2009
Updated on Aug 2026
White marble relief on a travertine base (H. 0.10 Br. 0.76 D. 0.50). Worked on two sides. Found at Fiano Romano «couché dans un petit réduit de briques» in 1926. Paris, Louvre. Probably second century.Cumont in RA (S. 6), 1946, 183ff and figs. 1-2. See figs. 179-180, given by Franz Cumont.
Obverse: Mithras, slaying the bull, whose tail ends in a bundle of ears. The dog, serpent, scorpion and raven. The upper corners are occupied by a rocky vault, from which the dressed busts of Sol (l) and Lune (r) emerge. Luna has a crescent behind her shoulders; around Sol’s head a crown of twelve rays and another…

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