Tarouctony of the Palazzo San Marco
TNMM 383 ↔ CIMRM 584
White marble statue (H. 1.10 Br. 1.13). Venice, in the Archaeological Museum of the former Royal Palace, Inv. No. 193. Second half of the second century A.D. In 1588 it was walled in the Palazzo S. Marco at Rome, but was bequeathed in 1793 by the Ambassador Girolamo Zulian to the Republic of Venice.
Mithras, slaying the bull. The dog and the serpent lick the blood; the scorpion on the usual place. The bull's tail ends in three ears. Traces of red painting on the tunic.
Restorations at the arms, r. foot and cloak of Mithras; at the bull's muzzle, horns, tail and l. foreleg; at the serpent's tail and at the l. part of the base.
References
Hammer, Mémoire, Pl. XXIV; Valentinelli, Mus. Ven., Pl. XXVI; Dütschke, V, No. 213; MMM II 223 No. 56 and fig. 52; RRS II, 476, 1; Anti, Museo Venezia, 159 No. 6. Fig. 161 by courtesy of the Museum Direction.
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
