Monumentum
Petrogeny from Florence
The sculpture of the birth of Mithras in Florence included the head of Oceanus.
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The New Mithraeum
11 Nov 2023
Updated on Jan 2026
TNMM 744 ↔ CIMRM 666
Fragment of a marble statue (H. 0.72 Br. 0.43). Galleria degli Uffizi.
The naked Mithras, only preserved up to his navel, is born from the stone-rock. On the front of the rock a head in long hair and beard has been represented (Oceanus). At the back of the stone a hole for a water-tube, which communicates with the mouth of the water-god. Another tube runs upwards through Mithras’ body.
References
Dutschke III 88 No. 146; Conze in AEMO II 119; MMM II 259 No. 102 and 487 No. 102 with fig. 420; Amelung Fiihr. Fl. 58f No. 83; Saxl 70 and fig. 154; Brogi 9246; Vermaseren in Studia van Hoorn 289 and PI. XXI 3. See figs. 189 and 190 procured by the Sopraintendenza aIle Gallerie.
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
