Monumentum
Tauroctony relief from Puteoli
This lost Mithraic relief, formerly kept near the church of the Santissima Annunziata in Naples, was probably a large tauroctony associated with the area of Puteoli or Pausilypon.
The New Mithraeum
18 May 2026
Relief formerly near Sta. Annunziata’s at Naples; present owner unknown.Carpaccio, l.c.; Zoega, Abh., 151 No. 36; MMM II 250 No. 94.According to Carpaccio it only differs from the preceding monument “quod inscriptione caret”.According to Mazocchi, Spicil. bibl., 1766, II, 86 (quoted by Cumont): “Extat Napoli apud Ioann. Carafam, Noiae ducem, ingens Mithrae anaglyphum”, with which probably the same monument is meant.
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