Monumentum
Lost marble fragments of Mithras tauroktonos from Via Boncompagni 101, Rome
Ancient marble fragments walled into the staircase of the house at Via Boncompagni 101 (Boarding-house Cosmopolita), including a lower part of a Mithras bull-killing group and a fragment of a low-relief with the bullkilling; not traced by Vermaseren.
The New Mithraeum
Updated on May 2026
TNMM 986 ↔ CIMRM 396
Several ancient fragments, walled in the wall of the flight of steps in the house at the Via Boncompagni 101 (boarding-house Cosmopolita). They should have been discovered during the construction of the house.
1) The lower part (Br. about 0.50) of a marble group of Mithras tauroctone with the usual animals. Around the bull's body a band.
2) The lower part (Br. about 0.06) of a marble low-relief with the bullkilling.
Personal researches have failed to find back these monuments.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
