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Monumentum

Tauroctony found under the Palazzo Montecitorio (CIMRM 430)

This relief was found under the Palazzo Montecitorio, in Rome, and bought by the Liebighaus at Frankfort.
  • Frontal view of the Tauroctony found under the Palazzo Montecitorio

    Frontal view of the Tauroctony found under the Palazzo Montecitorio
    Carole Raddato (CC BY-SA 2.0)

  • Detail Tauroctony found under the Palazzo Montecitorio

    Detail Tauroctony found under the Palazzo Montecitorio
    Carole Raddato (CC BY-SA 2.0)

  • CIMRM 430

    CIMRM 430
    Vermaseren's Corpus

 
The New Mithraeum
16 May 2021
Updated on Jan 2022

TNMM 256 ↔ CIMRM 430

Relief of gypsum (H. 0.90), found under the Palazzo Montecitorio in 1907. Bought by the Liebighaus at Frankfort. Second century.

Mithras slaying the bull, which wears a broad belt around its body. The dog's head near the wound; the other animals have got lost. On either side Cautes (r) and Cautopates (l), cross-legged. Traces of painting: Mithras' face, hair and hands are, gilt; his garments are red with a green meander-rim; the bull and the dog are red as well as the garments and the hands of the torchbearers.

Lost: flying cloak, I.h. and r. foot of Mithras; forelegs and right hind-hoof of the bull; hind-quarter of the dog.

References

MM, 230; Leipoldt, VII; Schnapperin Angelos, 1932, 9f with fig. See fig. 119.

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