Monumentum
Tauroctony marble from Mitreo Fagan
The sculpture has an inscription where Mithras is called the undiscoverable deity.
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15 May 2007
Tauroctonia del Mitreo Fagan, Ostia
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In the shrine a marble sculptural group was found of Mithras killing the bull (now in the Vatican Museums). He is called "undiscoverable deity" in an inscription on the basis:
SIG(num) INDEPREHENSIVILIS DEI C(aius) VALERIVS HERACLES SACERDOS S(ua) P(ecunia) P(osuit)
L(ucius) SEXTIVS KARVS ET
The second line was added later and should be understood as being in front of C. Valerius.
———
Marble statue (H. 0.84 Br. 1.42), found "at the entrance of the sanctuary". Mus. Vaticana, Galleria Lapidaria XXXIII, 1.
SIG(num) INDEPREHENSIVILIS DEI C(aius) VALERIVS HERACLES SACERDOS S(ua) P(ecunia) P(osuit)
L(ucius) SEXTIVS KARVS ET
The second line was added later and should be understood as being in front of C. Valerius.
———
Marble statue (H. 0.84 Br. 1.42), found "at the entrance of the sanctuary". Mus. Vaticana, Galleria Lapidaria XXXIII, 1.
Data
- Location Between the Tor Boacciana and the Palazzo Imperiale
- City Ostia
- Country Italy
- Current location Libreria Vaticana
- Current city Roma
- Current country Italy
- Type
- Tags
- Dimensions H. 84 W. 142 cm
- Material Marble (white)
- CIMRM 310
- TNM mtscit000114
Related
- Monumentum Mitreo Fagan