CIMRM 690-691 - White marble relief. Macerata / Picenum, Italy.

Tauroctony, once at Braunsberg, now in the National Museum Warsaw, inventory no. 198788 MNW. The site gives the date as 2-3rd century. Size: 49 x 60.5 x 6.

CIMRM entry

PICENUM MACERATA 690. White marble relief (H. 0.48 Br. 0.60), probably from Macerata. Museum at Braunsberg. Hülsen in RM 1904, 153; Greifenhagen in AA 1933, 443f and fig. 24 (see fig. 193). Mithras as killer of the bull, whose tail ends in three ears. The god has the Eastern attire and the normal attitude, around his head six rays. The bull bears a large band round its body. The raven in the l. upper corner; the dog and the snake with their heads near the wound; the scorpion at the testicles. On either side Cautes (r) and Cautopates (l), who hold their torches with both hands. Not crosslegged. In the r. upper corner an inscription: 691. [I]nvicto Propitio / Sal(vius) Novanio / [L]ucianus / d(onum) p(osuit).