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Monumentum

Marble tauroctony relief in the Froehner Collection

White marble relief depicting Mithras as bull-slayer in a grotto from the Froehner collection, now in the Cabinet des Médailles, Paris.

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18 Jan 2026

White marble relief (H. 0.20 Br. 0.26 D.0.045). From the Coll. G. Froehner to
the Cabinet des Médailles at Paris. In the personal description of Froehner (in the
Library of the Cabinet des Médailles X, p. 4BB) no provenance is given, only
"style des sculptures du Danube."
I am grateful to Dr. Jean Babelon for the right to publish this monument. See fig. 604. Mithras in frontal attitude as a bullkiller in a grotto. The god is naked but in
Phrygian cap, flying cloak and a loin-cloth. He grasps the bull by the snout,
thrusting the dagger in the bull’s body and he now victoriously…

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