CIMRM Supplement - Bronze figure of Mithras from tauroctony. Venice, Italy.

A bronze figurine (13.3 cm high, 2-3rd c. AD) held at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Venezia. A sharp-eyed curator noted in 2021 that the pose was the same as a tauroctony relief, and posted about it on twitter. It must be a remaining part of a bronze tauroctony, where the rest is lost.

@MuseoArcheoVene: Who’s the bronze figure? Our little bronze is Mithras... By the comparison between the little bronze (2nd-3rd C AD) and a relief with the same subject (2nd-3rd C AD), we can see, despite the lack of the bull, that the position and the action is the same. Mithras grabs the bull with one hand and kneeling on it, stabs it on the neck. The inventory number of the bronze is 255 Correr, the inventory number of the CIMRM 584 relief is 193. The bronze is not published. It dates back to the II-III century AD according to our catalogue records. It is 13,3 cm high. It belongs to the Correr Museum and we keep it as a trust.