CIMRM 1012-1013 - Relief with inscription. Dormagen, Germany.

1012. Relief in limestone (H.0.51 Br. 0.57 D.0.16). Bonn, Rheinisches Landesmuseum. See fig. 262 kindly supplied by the Director H. von Petrikovits. Lajard, Pl. LXXXI; Stark, o.c., Pl. I; Dorow, l.c.; MMM II 387 and fig. 299; Hettner, Katalog, No. 70; Koepp, Germ. Rom., IV, 57 and Taf. XXXV, 1; Lehner, Sk., II Taf. X, 4; Führer I Taf. XXVII, 2; St. 224; Esp. Rec. Gaule VIII, 282 No. 6335; Le Roy Campbell in Berytus XI, 1954,48 No. 156. Mithras as a bullkiller in the usual attitude and dress. His l. arm from the elbow is missing. The bull is represented and its tail ends in three corn-ears. The background is rocky; the dog leaps up against the bull; the serpent creeps over the ground; the scorpion is in the usual place. In the r. upper corner Luna. The face of Mithras, the bust of Sol and the raven are lost. The bottom rim bears an inscription: 1013. CIL XIII, 8523; MMM II No. 462. S(oli) i(nvicto) imp(erio) C. Amandinius / Verus buc(inator) v(otum) l(ibens) l(aetus) m(erito). Imperio has the sense of ex imperio. "La lecture imperatori est peu probable cf. cependant deo invicto regi." (Cumont). Cf. No. 1017 and 1063.

In the Bonn Landesmuseum.