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Monumentum

CIMRM 370 & 371

White marble statue found near the Scala Santa in Rome depicting Mithras as bull-slayer, accompanied by the dog, serpent and scorpion, with the bull’s tail ending in ears of grain.
 
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6 Apr 2026

TNMM 967 ↔ CIMRM 370 & 371

White marble statue (H. 1.29 Br. 1.30 base), found "pochi metri della Scala Santa" (Visconti) about 1853. Rome, Mus. Lateran, Inv. No. 343.

Mithras as a bullkiller. The bull’s tail ends in five ears. Beside the god’s r. leg the sheath. The dog and the serpent near the wound; the scorpion on the usual place.

CIMRM 371

At the same time as the No. 370 a marble head of Marcus Aurelius was found.

References

Visconti in Giornale di Roma, 14th Nov. 1853; Braun, Ruinen Roms, 749 No. 21; Benndorf-Schoene, 117 No. 199; MMM II 206 No. 20; Helbig, Führer, II, 12 No. 1163 (391); Colini, Celio, 48 and 363; Anderson, No. 26376 (see fig. 107).

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