CIMRM 531 - White marble tauroctony (Kircher). Baths of Diocletian, Rome.
Photographed by Roger Pearse in the Museo Nazionale Terme (Museum of the Baths of Diocletian), next to the S. Stefano Rotondo exhibits, 2014.
Museum label for piece. RP
Left view. RP
Right view. RP
CIMRM entry
531.
White marble statue (H. 0.92 Br. 0.74). Formerly in the Museum Kircherianum, nowadays Mus. Naz. Terme, Inv. No. 65196.
Zoega, Abh., 148 No. 7; MMM II 217, No. 43; Helbig, Führer, II 280 No. 1659; Paribeni, Terme Diocl., 139 No. 283. See fig. 149 (Sansaini).
Mithras, slaying the bull. The dog and the serpent hold their heads near the blood from the wound; the scorpion on the usual place. On Mithras' Eastern attire traces of red-paint.
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