CIMRM 607 - Tauroctony, broken top and right. Rome, now Boston.
Roman, Imperial Period, about A.D. 125-175 Height x width: 65 x 85 cm (25 9/16 x 33 7/16 in.) Marble, from Carrara in northwest Italy. Accession Number: 92.2692. On view: Roman Art - 213.
By date unknown: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Sculpture in Stone: from Rome; said to have been found near the Ponte Palatino, in the river bed or bank); gift of Edward Perry Warren to MFA, September 1892.
According to Murley, Published by Cumont ("1959, 24").
CIMRM entry
607 White marble relief, the top and r. sides broken off (H. 0.65 Br. 0.84). Anonymously presented to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Inv. No. 92.2692.
Trust. MFA, 17th Annual Report, 1893, 16f No. 1; MMM II 229f No. 67; GBA VII, 1912,70; Reinach in CAA VII, 1912, 70; RRR II, 200, 4; Caskey, Cat. Boston, 185f No. 106; Saxl, fig. 35. Fig. 174 by courtesy of the Keeper of the Museum.
Mithras in Eastern attire and elegant foot-wear, sits astride on the bull, grasping its lower jaw with one hand and thrusting the dagger into its body with the other. Mithras' head got lost. The serpent creeps over the ground; the scorpion is not represented; the raven is not visible. Of the dog the collar only has been preserved. No traces of painting.
Bibliography
James Murley, "The impact of Edward Perry Warren on the study and collections of Greek and Roman Antiquities in American academia", Diss. U.of.Louisville 2012. p.309-310 and 545 (pl. 147). Online here.
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