The New Mithraeum
28 Dec 2020
Updated on Nov 2023
Rectangular relief (H. 0.54 Br. 0.98). Museum, Damascus. Found in 1932 by Captain Lavrieste on the left bank of the Afrin, near a bridge where the Roman road from Antiochia bifurcates to the East and North-East.
Cumont in Syria 1933, 381ff and Pl. XL, 2;1 Berytus XI, 1954, Pl. III, 1. See fig. 25.
The relief is hewn out in a thick piece of rock-stone. A monstrously small Mithras in Eastern dress as a bull-killer. Behind the animal’s drooping tail a snake; on the other side, in front of the bull, the dog. The raven flies towards the god, the scorpion is invisible…
Cumont in Syria 1933, 381ff and Pl. XL, 2;1 Berytus XI, 1954, Pl. III, 1. See fig. 25.
The relief is hewn out in a thick piece of rock-stone. A monstrously small Mithras in Eastern dress as a bull-killer. Behind the animal’s drooping tail a snake; on the other side, in front of the bull, the dog. The raven flies towards the god, the scorpion is invisible…
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