Monumentum
Tauroctony marble from Mitreo Fagan
This sculpture of Mithras killing the bull was dedicated to the ’incomprehensible god’ by a certain priest called Gaius Valerius Heracles.
The New Mithraeum
15 May 2007
Updated on Mar 2024
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Mithras as a bullkiller. His flying cloak is adorned with seven stars around a crescent. The raven is seated on the bull’s tail, which ends in three ears. The dog with collar and the serpent with their heads near the wound; the scorpion in the usual place. On the lower border the inscription No. 311. End of the second cent. A.D.
CIMRM 311
CIL XIV 64; MMM II No. 138.
Sig(num) indrepehensivilis dei / L(ucius) Sextius Karns et / C(aius) Valerius
Heracles
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