Mithras's feast from Mérida
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Three persons, reclining at table, on which a plate with food (bread and meat ?). On either side a person is standing, dressed in a long cloak. A third person approaches from the left, also in a long cloak, carrying a plate in both hands, on which a bull's head. Behind him a representation of Mithras' rock-birth. The god holds his arms spread out. The heads of all figures are damaged.
Gomez Moreno, Materiales, PI. XXXIV, fig. 40; Paris in RA XXIV, 1914, 10 No. 10 and fig.
Data
- Location
Casa del Mitreo de Mérida, Emerita Augusta, Lusitania (Hispania) Mérida (Spain) - Current location
Museo Nacional de Arte Romano de Mérida [127] Mérida (Spain) - Type
- Labels
- Dimensions H. 36 W. 70 D. cm
- Material Marble
- Canonical URI
mithraeum.eu/monument/300
- CIMRM 782
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