Monumentum
Tauroctony from Toronto
This relief of Mithras killing the bull is on display at the Royal Ontario Museum.
Mithras killing the bull in TorontoYonca Eldener
The New Mithraeum
31 Oct 2023
TNMM 719 ↔ CIMRM 606
White marble relief (H. 0.90 Br. about 1.20). Janes Buildings, Toronto.
In a cave Mithras, slaying the bull. With his l.h. he seems to grasp one of its horns. Dog, serpent and scorpion. The raven on the rocky border. On either side a torchbearer, cross-legged. Both raise their torches (probably a modern restoration). In the upper corners the dressed busts of Sol in radiate crown (l) and of Luna with a cloth on her hair, on which a crescent is visible.
References
MMM II 483 No. 67bis and fig. 418; from a report in AJA we understand, that on Dec. 29, 1926 N. W. de Witt lectured on "A Mithras relief at Toronto". This lecture seems to have been published, but we have not yet succeeded in consulting it. Cf. No. 616.
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
