Monumentum
Tauroctony from Domus del Mitreo of Tarquinia
Votive sculpture of Mithras sacrificing the bull from the Mithraeum of Tarquinia.
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The New Mithraeum
23 Dec 2020
Updated on Jan 2022
TNMM 214
Sculpture of a Tauroctony in white marble. Mithras, without head and hands, seems to grab the animal's muzzle with one hand while holding the dagger with which he has already made a cut in the neck of the bull from which flows a copious stream of blood and which a dog rushes to lick. The scorpion holds the bull's testicles with both pincers.
