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Monumentum

Tauroctony from La Bâtie-Montsaléon

This damaged relief of Mithras killing the bull found in 1804 and formerly exposed at Gap, is now lost.
Drawing of La Batie-Montsaleon Mithras sculpture.

Drawing of La Batie-Montsaleon Mithras sculpture.
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The New Mithraeum
9 Feb 2022
Updated on Feb 2026
“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.).”

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.

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