CIMRM 430 - Plaster/Gypsum relief. Rome; now Liebighaus Museum, Frankfurt

From: Twitter. By Carole Raddato, May 2014.

See also Wikimedia Commons: Relief of Mithras killing a bull; Rome, c. 200 AD; gilded plaster; Museum: Liebieghaus, Frankfurt am Main, Inv. No. 333.

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CIMRM entry

430. Relief of gypsum (H. 0.90), found under the Palazzo Montecitorio in 1907. Bought by the Liebighaus at Frankfort. Second century. MM, 230; Leipoldt, VII; Schnapper in Angelos, 1932, 9f with fig. See fig. 119. Mithras slaying the bull, which wears a broad belt around its body. The dog's head near the wound; the other animals have got lost. On either side Cautes (r) and Cautopates (l), cross-legged. Traces of painting: Mithras' face, hair and hands are gilt; his garments are red with a green meander-rim; the bull and the dog are red as well as the garments and the hands of the torchbearers. Lost: flying cloak, l.h. and r. foot of Mithras; forelegs and right hind-hoof of the bull; hind-quarter of the dog.