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Monumentum

Sabazios with Mithras from Bolsena

This unusual bronze bust of Sabazios features multiple symbolic elements, with Mithras depicted in his characteristic pose of slaying the bull, positioned just below Sabazios’ chest.
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The New Mithraeum
27 Nov 2024
Updated on Nov 2024
1) Cast bronze low-relief (H. 0.25 Br. 0.20) with four holes in it, probably for fastening it into a wall. Head and arms in. high-relief.

2) Embossed bronze relief (H. 0.17 Br. 0.26) also with four drill-holes.

The exact find-spot is unkown. Uncertain is the information, that they should come from Bolsena, from where they "ex hypogaeo Herenniorum" together with other bronze objects came into the collection of Marchese Ravizza. Now in the Etruscan Museum, Room XII of the Vatican Collections.

Cumont in RA (S. 1) XIX 1892 189ff with Pl. X; MMM II 259f No. 104 with figs. 97/98; Helbig Fuhrer 13 405 Nos…

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