Monumentum
Marble head from Cyrene
Marble head with locks of hair and Phrygian cap, probably depicting Mithras as bull-killer, found under the threshold of the Iseum at Cyrene.
The New Mithraeum
Updated on May 2026
TNMM 849 ↔ CIMRM 106
Marble head (H. 0.15), found under the threshold of the Iseum at Cyrene. Ghislanzoni, Sant. Div. Al., 164f with fig. 7; Cumont in JS 1927, 318ff; P. Romanelli, La Cirenaica romana, Roma 1943, 223.
Head with locks of hair and Phrygian cap. Mouth half-open; pathetical expression. Nose damaged. Very probably the head of Mithras as bull-killer. End of second or begin of third cent. A.D.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
