Monumentum
Tauroctony of Syracuse
The Mithra Tauroctonos from Syracuse, Sicily, is currently on display in the city's archaeological museum.
Tauroctony exposed at the Museo Archeologico di Siracusa
The New Mithraeum / Jorge Gallo (CC BY-NC-SA)
The New Mithraeum
18 May 2021
Updated on 18 Jan 2022
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The statue is very damaged. Mithras is missing his head, almost both full arms, right foot and cape. We can see the belly of the bull and part of his rear right leg.
Fragment of greyish marble relief (H. 0.57 Br. 0.55 D.0.18), found at Syracusae at the demolition of Spanish fortifications. Syracuse, Arch. Museum (Inv. No. 8478).
Mithras as a bullkiller. Of the god the trunk only has been preserved; of the bull the fore-part has got lost. On the belly of the animal the point of a snake's tongue is visible.
Pace l.c.
Fragment of greyish marble relief (H. 0.57 Br. 0.55 D.0.18), found at Syracusae at the demolition of Spanish fortifications. Syracuse, Arch. Museum (Inv. No. 8478).
Mithras as a bullkiller. Of the god the trunk only has been preserved; of the bull the fore-part has got lost. On the belly of the animal the point of a snake's tongue is visible.
Pace l.c.