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Tauroctony from Asciano

The marble Tauroctony of Asciano, Siena, was donated by Franz Cumont to the Academia Belgica, Rome.

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15 Aug 2021

Marble statue (H. 0.42 Br. 0.47), bought by Franz Cumont at Rome from a merchant in Rome, who said that it came from Asciano. Before Cumont's decease in his house, Corso d'Italia 19, Rome, now in the Belgian Academy, Valle Giulia.

On a rocky base Mithras as a bullkiller. The god wears a long anaxyrides. The
dog (the hind-part lost) and the serpent with their heads near the wound; a big scorpion at the testicles. The serpent seems to emerge from the rocky ground.

Cumont, Mithra en Etrurie, 102f and Tav. XII, 1. See fig. 187, kindly given by Cumont.

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