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Monumentum

Relief of a wounded bull from Rome

Fragmentary relief from the area of the Porticus of Pompey once interpreted as Mithraic but later identified as a representation of Victoria.

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27 May 2026

Regio IX — Porticus of Pompejus.F. Castagnoli in BCR LXXII, 1949–50, 149 mentions a find in 1866 in the Via dei Chiavari: il toro mitriaco ferito . . . . dalla donzella alata . . . . il bassorelievo è grande. But cf. Pietrangeli in BCR 1940, 236 who pointed out that a similar frieze, with which Bendorff-Schoene, Catal., 47 identifies this monument, still exists in the same place. It is a Victoria.

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