CIMRM 592 - Free standing tauroctony from Rome, now in British Museum

This item also appears on the British Museum database:

Reference:	Sculpture 1720.
Dimensions:	Height: 1.29 metres; Length: 1.44 metres.
Date:	2nd century.
From:	Rome.
Location:	Location: G69.
Acquisition date:	1825.
Bibliography:	Pryce, F N; Smith, A H, Catalogue of Greek Sculpture in the British Museum, I-III, London, BMP, 1892. Item 1720.

And also on the British Museum website, which states that it is in room 69, on the first floor, reference GR 1825.6-13.1 (Sculpture 1720). As of April 2014 it is not on display, but being restored.

CIMRM entry

592. White marble statue (H. 1.27 BL 1.50). From Rome transported to London by Charles Standish in 1815; from 1826 in the British Museum, Inv. No. 1720. Probably second century. Ellis, Townley Gall., I, 282; Clarac, Mus. Sculpt., IV, 25 and Pl. 559; MMM II 227 No. 64 and fig. 60; Smith, Cat. Br. Mus., 86f No. 1720 and fig. 10; Loeschcke in Tr. H., 313 fig. 2; RRS I, 296, 2; Saxl, fig. 133. See fig. 167. Mithras, slaying the bull. The dog and the serpent lick the blood from the wound; the scorpion at the testicles. Restored: Mithras' head, l. arm, r. arm (foremost part) and greater part of the dagger, part of the attire; the bull's muzzle, ears and horns; the hind-quarter of the dog except the legs. Smith observes that the statue corresponds accurately to a sketch by van Heemskerck, if one thinks away the restorations. But the band on the bull contradicts this opinion, because this band does not occur on the statue itself.