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Monumentum

Torso dedicated to Mithras

Marble torso found at Ostia in 1912 between the Decumanus and the Via dei Molini, dedicated to Mithras by a certain Atilius Glycol.
Male busto dedicated to Mithras from Ostia.

Male busto dedicated to Mithras from Ostia.
Unknown. 

 
The New Mithraeum
21 Dec 2024
Updated on Dec 2024

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Marble torso (H. 0.185), found at Ostia in 1912 between the Decumanus and the Via dei Molini. Vatican Musea (Museo Profano). Vaglieri in NSc 1913, 210f with fig. 15; Tamborini in Atti IV Congr. StR I, 1938, 197ff and fig. VIII, 1; IX, 2; Becatti, Mitrei Ostia, 129 and PI. XXXVIII, 2. Muscular, robust torso, naked. Head, arms and legs lost. On the chest an inscription (No. 320). The bust may originally have represented a Hercules and is perhaps transformed into a statue of a torchbearer or Sol later on. According to a note in BCR 1939, 175 it is erroneously thought to originate from Rome or Dec…
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