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Monumentum

Bull relief fragment from Aquileia

Fragmentary marble relief with the hind legs of a bull once interpreted as Mithraic but considered doubtful by Vermaseren.
 
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
G. Brusin, Gli scavi di Aquileia. Udine 1934, 114f and fig. 68 (followed by T. Nagy in AErt 85, 1958, 110) considers a fragment of a marble relief as Mithraic. There are two hindfeet of a standing bull and behind it the 'r. foot of a figure with a piece of a burning torch turned downwards.' I do not see the foot of the torch-bearer.The representation seems too doubtful to be considered as Mithraic. Second century A.D.

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