White marble slab relief of Mithras tauroktonos from the Palazzo del Grillo, Rome

White marble slab (H. 0.70 Br. 0.50 D. 0.06). Found in 1928 by the Comtesse de Robillant in a cellar, full of debris, of the Palazzo del Grillo behind the Forum of Augustus; walled into a wall of the palace-garden. Gatti in BCR LIII, 1925, 301ff and fig. 5. See fig. 108.On a rocky base the statue of Mithras as a bullkiller. The serpent with its head near the wound; the scorpion at the testicles; of the dog only traces of its feet are visible. Mithras' head and both arms as well as the bull's head and tail have got lost. Traces of gilt have been preserved on the band, which the bull wears round the body…