Monumentum
Intaglio with Tauroctony from The Met
This small magical jasper gem shows Sol in a quadrigra on the recto and Mithras as a bull slayer on the verso.
Reverse side of the intaglio with Mithras Tauroctonos
The Met (Public Domain)
Reverse side of the intaglio with Mithras Tauroctonos
The Met (Public Domain)
CIMRM 2361
Vermaseren's Corpus
CIMRM 2361-2
Vermaseren's Corpus
The New Mithraeum
6 Mar 2024
Updated on Mar 2024
Magical red and green jasper intaglio. The obverse shows Sol on a quadriga, naked and crowned, wearing a cloak, raising his right hand and holding a globe surrounded by two intersecting circles in his left hand. Above him is ABLANATHANALBA, a palindrome in Greek letters. At the bottom we can read TUXEUI.
On the reverse is a classical representation of Mithras Tauroctonos. Mithras, wearing his Phrygian cap and dressed in eastern fashion, on a bull, in whose neck he ploughs a dagger. Cautes, Cautopates, Corvus, Serpent, Dog and Scorpion seem to be missing.
Provenance[With George Eastwood, London]; before 1866…
On the reverse is a classical representation of Mithras Tauroctonos. Mithras, wearing his Phrygian cap and dressed in eastern fashion, on a bull, in whose neck he ploughs a dagger. Cautes, Cautopates, Corvus, Serpent, Dog and Scorpion seem to be missing.
Provenance[With George Eastwood, London]; before 1866…
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