Monumentum
Tauroctony relief of the Esquiline
The relief of Mithras slaying the bull found on the Esquiline Hill includes two additional scenes with Mithras and two other figures.
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12 Jan 2022
Tauroctony relief from the Esquiline ancient reproduction
Heidelberger historische Bestände
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Relief in limestone (H. 1.25 Br. 0.90 D. 0.085). Museo Capitolino.
The relief is worked as an engraving. Mithras in Eastern attire with a sheath at his side, kills in a cave the bull whose tail ends in ears. Two strips on its body seem to indicate a large band. The dog with collar near the wound; the serpent creeps over the ground; the scorpion at the testicles. Near the cave on each side a tree; the raven is perched on the branches of the left one. On either side of the main scene Cautes (r) and Cautopates (l) in Eastern attire; cross-legged.
In the l.
The relief is worked as an engraving. Mithras in Eastern attire with a sheath at his side, kills in a cave the bull whose tail ends in ears. Two strips on its body seem to indicate a large band. The dog with collar near the wound; the serpent creeps over the ground; the scorpion at the testicles. Near the cave on each side a tree; the raven is perched on the branches of the left one. On either side of the main scene Cautes (r) and Cautopates (l) in Eastern attire; cross-legged.
In the l.
Data
- Location
Mitreo della Piazza Dante, Roma, Latium (Italia) Esquilino hill, Rome (Italy) - Type
- Labels
- Dimensions H. 125 W. 90 D. 8.5 cm
- Discovery date 1874
- Material Stone Limestone
- Canonical URI
mithraeum.eu/monument/382
- CIMRM 350, 351
- CIL VI 3730
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- Mithraeum Mitreo della Piazza Dante
- Monumentum Mitreo della Piazza Dante
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