Monumentum
CIMRM 2196 & 2197
White marble relief depicting Mithras as bull-slayer in a grotto from the Froehner collection, now in the Cabinet des Médailles, Paris.
Tauroctonic relief at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris.
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The New Mithraeum
18 Jan 2026
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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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