CIMRM 584 - Tauroctony. Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Venezia, Italy.

584. White marble statue (H. 1.10 Br. 1.13). Venice, in the Archaeological Museum of the former Royal Palace, Inv. No. 193. Second half of the second century A.D. In 1588 it was walled in the Palazzo S. Marco at Rome, but was bequeathed in 1793 by the Ambassador Girolamo Zulian to the Republic of Venice. Hammer, Mémoire, Pl. XXIV; Valentinelli, Mus. Ven., Pl. XXVI; Dütschke, V, No. 213; MMM II 223 No. 56 and fig. 52; RRS II, 476, 1; Anti, Museo Venezia, 159 No. 6. Fig. 161 by courtesy of the Museum Direction. Mithras, slaying the bull. The dog and the serpent lick the blood; the scorpion on the usual place. The bull's tail ends in three ears. Traces of red painting on the tunic. Restorations at the arms, r. ,foot and cloak of Mithras; at the bull's muzzle, horns, tail and l. foreleg; at'the serpent's tail and at the l. part of the base.

The CIMRM places this item under the heading "Monuments probably found at Rome but not preserved there."

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1) R.Polacco-G.Traversari, Sculture romane e avori tardo medievali del Museo Archeologico di Venezia, G.Bretschneider 1988, n.13 pp.41-44; 2) I.Favaretto, M.DePaoli, M.C.Dossi (a cura di), Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Venezia, Electa 2004, p.94

The inventory number is 193. It may be "193 Correr", i.e. part of the Museo Correr collection, also held by the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Venezia.