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Monumentum

CIMRM 122

Fragment of a white marble statue of Mithras killing the bull from Rusicade, today Skikda, Algeria.

  • CIMRM 122

    CIMRM 122
    Vermaseren's Corpus

 
The New Mithraeum
20 Dec 2024
Updated on May 2026

TNMM 860 ↔ CIMRM 122

Fragment of a white marble statue (H. 0.23 Br. 0.18).

Usual representation of Mithras tauroctone, who wears a belt with the sheath. The r.foot and the greatest parts of the god’s arms are lost as well as the legs and the end of the bull’s tail.

References

Delamare, Expl. Alg., PI. 16 Nos 1; 2; Bertrand, Cat. Philippeville, I, 53; Carton in BSAF 1899, 327ff; MMM II 406 No. 284a with fig. 329; RRS II 477, 3; Gsell-Bertrand, Mus. Philippeville, 45 and PI. VI, 1; L. Leschi, Algerie antique, Paris 1952, PI. 68. See fig. 37.

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Mithraeum of Skikda

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Silvanus from Skikda

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Mithraic rock and vase from Rusicade

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CIMRM 123 124

Two marble statues of Cautes and Cautopates discovered in the Mithraeum of Rusicade, accompanied by symbolic animals including a lion, scorpion, dolphin and bird.

 
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