Monumentum
Tauroctony relief found between Porta Portese and St Pancrace
Franz Cumont bought this relief of Mithras as a bullkiller from a dealer who claimed to have found it in a vineyard near the church of Saint Pancrace, in Rome.
The New Mithraeum
24 Oct 2023
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Only the upper part of the relief has been preserved. Mithras, slaying the bull. The god wears the dagger’s sheath on his back; he looks at the raven, which is perched on his flying cloak. The dog’s head and the
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