Tauroctony relief exposed at the Hermitage Museum

TNMM 308 ↔ CIMRM 603 & 604

Mithra est fusa chlamyde, succinctus veste breviori, braccatus et manicatus, curva tiara, respiciens corvum. Taurum figit cultro parazonio extremum pedem ei suo premens; altera nares tenet; adsilit ad vulnus canis et serpens toto bovis spatio porrectus. Testes bovis chelis suis apprehendit scorpius, cauda bovis in quatuor aristas desinens subrecta est. Subest inscriptio. No. 604.

As Lupus' manuscript states, that in the beginning of the 18th century it was kept 'Romae in Musea Rolando', Cumont presumed (MMM II 483 No. 65bis), that this relief is the same as a work, which has got lost hitherto and of which we reproduce a drawing according to Causius, who adds 'apud P. A. Rolandum'

If indeed we compare the description of the Corpus with the Causeus reproduction, the similarity is striking. The bull's tail however, ends in three ears, but a drawing may easily lead to a mistake. For one of the ears is bigger and fuller then the other two. As to the inscription, Causeus may simply have omitted it.

A relief, formerly 'in domo Andreae Cinquinae'. Now Leningrad (?).

CIMRM II 603

CIL VI 735.