CIMRM 598 - Tauroctony from Rome. Berlin, Germany.

From: Michael Fuller, 2019. Professor Michael Fuller photographed a Mithras relief from Rome on display in Berlin. The Neues Museum date this relief to the 2nd century AD and indicates that it was discovered in 1835. Inventory number SK 707.

CIMRM entry

598.
White marble relief (H. 0.70). Bought by Gerhard in Rome for the Altes Museum in Berlin (1834). During my visit at Berlin, I was not able to study the Berlin monuments personally.
Lajard, Intr., Pl. XCIX; Mémoire Vénus, 231; Verzeichniss Ant. Skulpt., No. 707; MMM II 225f No. 60 and fig. 56; Beschr. Ant. Skulpt., 54 No. 707; Saxl, fig. 147. See fig. 172.
In a cave, Mithras as a bullkiller in the usual attitude and attire. The god is looking at the raven, which is perched on the rocky border. The jumping dog with collar; the creeping serpent; the scorpion.
On the foreground a dressed; reclining woman (Tellus), leaning on her l. arm and resting on her knee a basket with fruits.
In the upper corners the dressed busts of Sol (l) in radiate crown and of Luna in crescent.