Monumentum
Tauroctony of Monreale
On one of the capitals of the cathedral of Santa Maria Nuova in Monreale, Sicily, an unusual turbaned bull-slaying Mithras has been recorded.
The New Mithraeum
27 Dec 2023
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As in the other two medieval depictions of Mithras Tauroctonus found to date, the crow, the scorpion and the dog have been omitted. The image also lacks the snake that appears in the Santo Domingo de Silos relief.
The image of Mithras belongs to the double capital number 22 in the south
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