CIMRM 908c1 - Vase. Lezoux, France.

908C1. Vase (form Dragendorff-Dechelette 72) found in 1957 at Lezoux (section H, No. 397-398) only one half of which is preserved. Lezoux, Arch. Museum. A. Morlet in Les Nouvelles Litteraires 26-IX-1957, 7 and fig.; Comité de Lezoux, Vase à relief d'applique representant Mithra in Ogam IX, 1957, 147ff and Pls XIII-XIX. See fig. 257 kindly offered by Dr. A. Morlet. Mithras as a bullkiller in a rectangle, bordered by twigs and pearls in barbotine. Underneath the bull are the serpent and the scorpion. The god's flying cloak is decorated with a large rosette. Behind this scene are the dog and two cross-legged torchbearers with upraised torches. Between them in a metope is a sitting halfnaked goddess with a cornucopia in her r.h. and probably holding a patera in her l.h. Before the bull a third torchbearer in the same attitude as his companions and another Abundantia. Middle of the third century A.D.