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Two Mithras-Attis terracotta from Kerch
Terracotta tablets depicting a Taurombolium by Attis which might be at the origins of the mithraic Tauroctony iconography.
The New Mithraeum
21 May 2021
Updated on Sep 2023
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Mithras dressed in a pair of trousers and a jacket, leaving the stomach and genitals uncovered, keeps a buffalo-like bull under control with one knee, grasping one of its horns with the l.h. In his lifted r.h. he held the knife, which has got lost. On the reverse there is a triangular fire hole.
Stark, Mithrassteine Dormagen, 18 and Pl. III; MMM II 192 No. 5 and fig. 17; Derewitzky, Odessa 10f
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