Monumentum
Mithraic relief of Baris
The Mithraic relief from Baris, in present-day Turkey, shows what appears to be a proto-version of the Tauroctony, with a winged Mithras surrounded by two Victories.
The New Mithraeum
26 May 2021
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MM 229; Saxl 14 and fig. 38; Cumont M. As. Min. 70f and PI. II 1; CRAI 1947303ff and fig. 1.
The relief was thought to be a representation of Mithras as a bullkiller; it is, however, a Victoria tauroctone, as Louis Robert kindly informs me (Ct. Nilsson, Gr. Rel. II, 643 and PI. 16, 1, CRAI 1948, 401).
Au centre de la plaque on voit le Mithra tauroctone,
Le
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