Tauroctony from the Gran Mitreo de Mérida

For a long time nobody had paid attention to the important words of Mélida at the end of his description of the sculptures found in 1902 in the Cerro de San Albín: ’With these sculptures, various fragments of others were found, among them, two of the clothes of a colossal statue and the base with the feet of a small figure, and next to the feet, the start of an altar’.
In his Catálogo monumental he mentions under nº 1097 a piece of a floating mantle with traces of red paint, as well as a fragment of a dressed image with two ears of corn, an attribute of Ceres (no. 1098)…