CIMRM Supplement - Stolen freestanding tauroctony. Tarquinia, Italy.

2. From: MiBAC

3. From: Flickr. By Pascal Lemaire, 2019.

4. From: Flickr. By Pascal Lemaire, 2019.

5. From: Flickr. By Pascal Lemaire, 2019.

3rd century freestanding tauroctony, whose discovery was announced in March 2015 by Italian police. They discovered it in a van, under a tarpaulin, and camouflaged behind plants. The intention was to smuggle it to Switzerland. It was worth 8 million euros. When found it had earthy "accretions" indicating that it had been found by illegal excavation. The site turned out to be the "Domus" in Tarquinia, a part of which may have been converted to a Mithraeum. See The Tarquinia Mithraeum.

See this link.

From MiBAC, 27th March, 2015:

See also Roma Republica article.

My thanks to Ste Trombetti for drawing my attention to all this material.


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