CIMRM Supplement - Tauroctony torso. Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA


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Reconstruction.

A badly damaged tauroctony, now in the Getty Museum.

M. Vermaseren, Mithriaca III: The Mithraeum at Marino, p.1 n.2 describes this item as follows:

Oikonomides begins his description thus:

Note that the location of the scorpion is not in the usual place, attacking the bull's genitals.

Bibliography

  • Al. N. Oikonomides, "A New Mithraic Tauroctony in the J. Paul Getty Museum", The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal, 5 (1977), pp. 85-90. Includes plates. JSTOR.
  • Getty website


1Oikonomides, p.3.

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