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Monumentum

Mithras Tauroctonus from private collection

Marble group of Mithras slaying the bull, formerly sold by Antiquarium Ltd., New York.

The New Mithraeum

15 Jan 2021

Updated on May 2026

ROMAN MARBLE GROUP OF MITHRAS TAUROCTONUS CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D. This god shown dispatching the bull, wearing a Phrygian cap, a tunic, close-fitting trousers, and a chlamys billowing out behind, pulling the head of the bull back with his left hand, stabbing its shoulder with a dagger in his right hand, a snake and hound rear up lapping the blood from the wound, a scorpion below biting the bull’s pendulous testicles, on an integral plinth 14¼ in. (37 cm.) long

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