Cast of the Mithras Tauroctonos relief from London

Cast of the Mithras Tauroctonos relief from London (CG.H.22)

© Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford (image)

Details

Title

Cast of the Mithras Tauroctonos relief from London
Associated place

London (place of purchase)

London (Found in 1889 (with B 195) at Bond Court in Walbrook, London. Bought by W. Ransom from London art dealer.) (find spot of original)
Date

early 20th century
Material and technique

plaster
Material index

plaster
Object type

relief;

cast
Dimensions

44 x 56 cm estimated (height x width)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Purchased, 1912.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Cast Gallery
Accession no.

CG.H.22

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Catalogue text

Relief with Mithras dressed in short-sleeved tunic, cloak, trousers
and Phrygian cap, stabbing the bull. Below are a dog, a snake, a crab,
and torch-bearers flanking the scene. A circular band runs around the
central relief with the signs of the Zodiac, and in the upper left corner
is Sol, rising with his chariot, and opposite Luna descending with a
car drawn by oxen. Below are two personifications of winds, perhaps
Boreas and Zephyrus. Inscription: ULPIUS SILVANUS EMERITUS
LEG. II. AUG. VOTUM SOLVIT. FACTUS ARAUSIONE (‘Ulpius
Silvanus, veteran of the second Augustan Legion, paid his vow: He
was initiated at Arausio [Orange]’).

In: Frederiksen, Rune, and R.R.R. Smith, The Cast Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum: Catalogue of plaster casts of Greek and Roman sculpture (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2011)

Further reading

Frederiksen, Rune, and R.R.R. Smith, The Cast Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum: Catalogue of plaster casts of Greek and Roman sculpture (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2011)

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