Taurcotony of Secundinus

According to the latest tests of petrography, the statue is made from an unidentified, but surely imported type of marble. In its present fragmentary state, the dimensions are h. 1.08 x w. 1.08 x d. 0.30m, which suggests that the intact statue was rather less than life–sized (say 1.30-1.50m). The legs of Mithras are bare, without the bracca persica or anaxyrides, which are the typical indication of an oriental person in Greek art, and almost universal in the representations of Mithras. As usual, the god’s left leg is represented forcing the bull into submission. The folding of the chiton
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