CIMRM Supplement - Tauroctony. Cincinnati, USA
4) Relief in limestone (H. 0.625, W. 0.952. Th. 0.178) said to have been found in the Via Praenestina inside or outside Rome and now in Boston, the Cincinnati Art Museum, accession no 1968: 112. Mithras in the usual dress and attitude as bullslayer. Girt tunica manicata with the sheath of a dagger; the god is looking at the wound. Dog. snake and scorpion; no raven; no torchbearers. The bull's tail does not end in ears of corn. In the upper left corner and on the rocky background there is the bust of Sol whose head is surrounded by thirteen rays. The bust of Luna is almost completely missing as well as the hindquarters of the dog. Date: Antonine period. Published by R. L. Gordon in Journal of Mithraic Studies I. 1976, 166-186 with Plate. See Pl. XXV.
See also photo and description in Janson,2 and representation at Bridgeman Art which states: "Mithras slaying the bull, c.150-200 (limestone), Roman, (2nd century AD) / Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio, USA / Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher E. Nyce / The Bridgeman Art Library. 62.2x95.2x17.8 cms"
| 1 | M. J. Vermaseren, Mithriaca: , p.2. |
| 2 | Horst W. Janson, Anthony F. Janson, istory of Art: The Western Tradition, p. |
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