Tauroctony from La Bâtie-Montsaléon
TNMM 500 ↔ CIMRM 898, 899 & 900
“Damaged statue in white marble (H. 0.40 Br. 0.45)” (Héricard). Now lost formerly at Gap in the garden of the prefecture (Millin).
Found at La Bâtie MontsaIéon in 1804 “dans les ruines d’une maison qui, d’après sa construction et Ie grand nombre d’objets curieux qu’on y a recueillis, devait appartenir aun des plus riches habitants de Mons Seleucus (Her.).”
A damaged statue of Mithras as a bullkiller in usual attitude and attire. The dog, the serpent and the scorpion on the usual places. Lost: the upper part of the god as far as the belt; the bull’s head and tail; the dog’s head. On the base an inscription:
CIMRM 899
[Deo Soli in]victo M. Iulius Maternia/[n]us ex voto.
CIMRM 900
At the same time “coupes en terre d’une couleur tres brillante” with an inscription were found:
a) [G]audentius deo invicto.
b) Hector deo bono.
c) [Eu]porius deo in[victo].
Hirschfeld doubts the genuineness.
Main inscription
References
Héricart de Thury, Arch. Sel., 41; Farnaud in M. L. Soc. H. A. 1807,312; Millin, Voyage Midi, IV, 174 and PI. LXXI, 16; Laborde, Mon. France, I, 79 and PI. LXV; Zoega, Abh., 398; Jouffroy-Breton, Intr. hist. France, 104; Ladoucette, Troubadour, 262; 200; Hist. Alpes, 338 and PI. XVIII; Long, Rech., 153; Vallentin, Mus. Gap, 22; Epigraphie, 16 and PI. I; Honnorat in BSEtHA XI, 1892, 100; MMM II 402f No. 280 and fig. 324; Gillet, Monogr., 18; Esp. Rec. Gaule, I, 240 No. 325 and fig.; RRS III, 138,5. CIL XII 1535; MMM II No. 497. CIL XII 5686 (1160); MMM II No. 498.
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
