Tauroctony from Velletri

White marble statue (H. 0.90 Br. 0.77). The exact find-spot is unknown. The monument was at first at Velletri in the Palazzo Ginetti, later at Vescovali’s the antiquarian, then in the ColI. of Marchese Campana. Nowadays at Paris, Louvre (Inv. No. 1026). It is quite possible, that the relief originally comes from Velletri.

Lajard Intr. PI. CI 4; Zoega Abh. 148 No.9; Froehner Sculpt. No. 572; MMM II 248 No. 90 with fig. 81 ; RRS II 476 4. Our fig. 67 from a photograph willingly procured to us by Dr. P. Devambez Keeper of the Louvre.

Mithras, in usual attire and attitude, as a bullkiller…