Feast from Mérida

Marble relief (H. 0.36 Br. 0.70). Mus. Merida, Inv. No. 127.Three persons, reclining at table, on which a plate with food (bread and meat ?). On either side a person is standing, dressed in a long cloak. A third person approaches from the left, also in a long cloak, carrying a plate in both hands, on which a bull’s head. Behind him a representation of Mithras’ rock-birth. The god holds his arms spread out. The heads of all figures are damaged.Gomez Moreno, Materiales, PI. XXXIV, fig. 40; Paris in RA XXIV, 1914, 10 No. 10 and fig. 8; Melida, Cat. Badajoz, No. 1096; Pidal, Hist. Esp., II, 442 and fig. 252. See fig…