Monumentum
Tauroctony from Quirinale
This sculpture of Mithras sacrificing the bull was found in the Quirinal and is now on display in the Musei Capitolini.
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The New Mithraeum
15 Aug 2021
TNMM 321 ↔ CIMRM 385
Statue of Greek marble (H. 1.15 Br. 1.45), found on the Quirinalis, Via Rasella. Museo Capitolino.
Mithras as a bullkiller on a rocky base. The god's r. foot only, standing on the bull's hoof, has been preserved. The bull's muzzle with the horns and ears, its tail and L foreleg have got lost. The serpent and the dog near the wound; the scorpion on the usual place. The dog's hind-quarter and head are not preserved.
References
BCM 1881, 241; MMM II 479 No. lObis and fig. 413; RRS III, 138, 6. See fig. 110.
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
