Sabazios with Mithras from Bolsena

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

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