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Français : CIMRM 641: Mithras égorgeant le taureau sacré, face A d'un bas-relief romain en marbre, IIe–IIIe siècles ap. J.-C.
English: CIMRM 641: Two-sided white marble mithraic relief found at Fiano Romano, near Rome "couché dans un petit réduit de briques" in 1926. 2nd-3rd century CE.
Obverse: Tauroctony scene. Mithras slaying the bull in a cave, above which in the upper corners Sol (top left) and Luna (top right) emerge. Luna has a crescent behind her shoulders. Around Sol's head is a crown of twelve rays, plus another that darts out in the direction of Mithras. Also in the upper left is a raven. The dog, serpent, scorpion are set at their standard positions. The tail of the bull ends in ears of wheat. A clearer photo of the obverse is at Image:Mithras tauroctony Louvre Ma3441b.jpg.
Reverse: Banquet scene. In the middle, a bull's hide, of which the head and one hindleg are visible. Sol and Mithras recline on it side by side. Mithras holds a torch in his left hand and extends his right hand behind Sol. Sol is dressed only in a cape, fastened on his right shoulder with a fibula. Around Sol's head is a crown of eleven rays. He holds a whip in his left hand and extends the right towards a torchbearer who offers him a rhyton. In the lower right is another torchbearer, with raised torch in his left hand. In his right hand, a caduceus held into the water emerging from the ground. In the middle, an altar in the coils of a crested snake. In the upper left corner, Luna in a cloud, looking away. Traces of red paint on the attire of Sol, Mithras and the torchbearers. A clearer photo of the reverse is at Image:Mithras tauroctony Louvre Ma3441b.jpg.
Dimensions H. 62cm, W. 67 cm, D. 16 cm. Travertine base: H. 10cm, W. 76cm, D. 50cm.
institution QS:P195,Q19675
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Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Denon wing, ground floor
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Ma 3441 (MND 1911)
Credit line Gift of Cumont-Offenbach, 1939
Source/Photographer User:PHGCOM, 2006

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