CIMRM 2367 - Gold ring with Tauroctony. Walters Art Museum, USA

Medium=sard, gold mount. Dimensions=2.2 × 2.3 × 0.8 cm (0.9 × 0.9 × 0.3 in). Accession no=42.1342. Museum purchase, 1942. Place of origin=Nemea (?) (in present-day Greece). Labelled by museum as "Intaglio of a Mithraic Sacrifice" where it is given the date of "late 1st century BC (Augustan)". Walters Museum page¹

CIMRM entry

2367. Gem (0.019) said to be from Nemea; Walters Arts Gallery, Baltimore (Inv. 42.1342). Evans Collection Catalogue 1938,37 No. 216; Dorothy K. Hill in Journal of the Walters Arts Gallery VII-VIII, 1944-5,76. I am obliged to Mrs. Dorothy K. Hill to reproduce fig. 661. Mithras to l. slaying the bull in a grotto. The dog and the serpent. On either side a torchbearer sitting on a rocky stone; they hold their l. hands under their chins. The busts of Sol and of Luna.