Monumentum
Statue fragment from Cyrene
Damaged statue of Mithras as bull-killer on a rectangular base, found in the piazza of the Fountain of Apollo at Cyrene.
The New Mithraeum
Updated on May 2026
TNMM 850 ↔ CIMRM 107
Damaged statue. Proportion and Museum not known to us. Found at Cyrene "nel piazzale della fonte di Apollo". Ghislanzoni, o.c., 204 n. 1.
On a rectangular base, a bull is lying whose head has got lost. On his outstretched hindleg a l.foot and a part of a leg. In the bull's side a hole, where the dagger had been thrust in. On the bull's back several junctures. Mithras as bull-killer.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
