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CIMRM 230-231 - Statue of tauroctony. Ostia Museum, Italy. Also a duplicate once in the Giustiniani collection.![]() By: Roger Pearse. Taken May 2013 at the site museum in Ostia. A reproduction stands in the Mithraeum of the "Baths of Mithras" (CIMRM 229).
![]() From: Cathedrals and Crocodiles. By "Dr. Croc." The inscription is not visible unless you know to look for it.
![]() A faint inscription in Greek on the chest of the bull can be translated as "Kriton the Athenian made (the statue)". By Michael Fuller from here.
![]() Closeup of the right hand of Mithras holding the sword that would be used to slay the Bull of Heaven. This 1st century statue was discovered in 1939; on display in the museum of Ostia, Italy. By Michael Fuller from here.
![]() The Giustiniani duplicate, in 1999. From Stanford.
Two torsos of Mithras, one at Ostia and a duplicate one, stolen from the Giustiniani collection, sold to the Getty Museum, and returned to Italy in 1999. CIMRM entry
From the Ostia Antica site.
From the Stanford University site:
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