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Monumentum

Statue fragment from Praeneste

Fragment of a white marble statue of Mithras tauroktonos with dog, serpent and scorpion, upper body and right leg missing, found at Praeneste (modern Palestrina).

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Fragment of white marble statue (H. 0.29 Br. 0.39). Was in the 18th cent. at Palestrina: "Vidi nuper Praeneste in aedibus principis Barberiniorum". (Mon. Matth.) Nowadays in the garden of the Palazzo Barberini at Palestrina. Monumenta Mattheiana III, 1778; 4, Zoega, Abh., 148 No. 8b; MMM II 247 No. 88.The usual representation of Mithras tauroktonos with the dog, serpent and scorpion. Of the god the upper part of the body from the belt and his r. leg, of the bull the head, of the dog the upper part are missing. The extremities of the base are broken off.

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