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Rock-crystal tauroctony gem from Paris

Rock-crystal gem in the Cabinet des Médailles, Paris, depicting Mithras as bull-slayer with the standard iconographic programme.
  • Rock-crystal tauroctony gem from Paris.

    Rock-crystal tauroctony gem from Paris.

  • CIMRM 2362-2

    CIMRM 2362-2
    Vermaseren's Corpus

 
The New Mithraeum
29 May 2026

TNMM 2578 ↔ CIMRM 2362

Gem in "rock-crystal" (H. 0.021 Br. 0.026). Paris, Cabinet des Médailles. I am obliged to Dr. Jean Babelon who kindly sent me a photograph.

Mithras as a bullkiller. The god has a crown of five rays; three stars on his flying cloak. The dog, the snake, the scorpion. The raven and the two torchbearers are not represented.

References

Chabouillet, Cat. Cam., 246 No. 2302; Lajard, Intr., Pl. CII, 2; E. Babelon, Gravure, 174 fig. 131; MMM II 447 No. 1 and fig. 393 (after Lajard); Eisler, Weltenmantel I, 63 n. 1 and fig. 9. See fig. 656.

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