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Monumentum

Mitra de Cabra

The Mithras of Cabra is the only full preserved Tauroctony sculpture found in Spain yet.
Mitra de Cabra (Códoba)

Mitra de Cabra (Códoba)
Museo Arqueológico y Etnológico de Córdoba 

 
 
The New Mithraeum
17 Jun 2009
Updated on Dec 2022
 

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White marble statue (H. 0.93), found in 1952 in Fuente de la Piedras, community of Cabra (prov. Cordova). Archaeological Museum at Cordova. In the mean time fragments of Corinthian capitals and of marble columns, many tiles have been found; there must have been a Mithraeum.

Garcia y Bellido in AEA 1952, 389ff with PI. (see fig. 207).

On a rocky base the usual group of Mithras slaying the bull. The god is in Eastern attire with long trousers and tunica manicata.

Dog, serpent and scorpion.



Procedencia: Cerca de la pared occidental que delimita el impluvium de la Villa romana de

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