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More model informationThis relief depicts the central episode of the myth of the god Mithras, according to an established iconography, illustrating the slaying of the bull inside a grotto. Traces of the original coloring can be seen on the marble. The relief was found in 1964 at Tor Cervara during work to remove wartime debris and it was probably the explosion of a piece of ordnance that broke the relief into more than fifty pieces. In the meantime the fragment depicting the deity’s head had ended up in the Karlsruhe Museum where, at the end of the 1980s, it was identified as belonging to this relief.
Rome, Tor Cervara.
end of 2nd c. AD - start of 3rd c. AD
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