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| Keywords: Mithras banquet Louvre Ma3441.jpg Side B reverse of a two-sided Mithraic relief Found at Fiano Romano near Rome couché dans un petit réduit de briques in 1926 White marble H 62cm W 67 cm D 16 cm on a travertine base H 10cm W 76cm D 50cm 2nd-3rd century <br />This reverse face of the monument depicts a banquet scene In the middle a bull's hide of which the head and one hindleg are visible Sol and Mithras recline on it side by side Mithras holds a torch in his left hand and extends his right hand behind Sol Sol is dressed only in a cape fastened on his right shoulder with a fibula Around Sol's head is a crown of eleven rays He holds a whip in his left hand and extends the right towards a torchbearer who offers him a rhyton In the lower right is another torchbearer with raised torch in his left hand In his right hand a caduceus held into the water emerging from the ground In the middle an altar in the coils of a crested snake In the upper left corner Luna in a cloud looking away Traces of red paint on the attire of Sol Mithras and the torchbearers The obverse face of this monument is a tauroctony scene See File Mithras_tauroctony_Louvre_Ma3441b jpg Mithra identifié au dieu Soleil en train de banqueter accompagné par Séléné la Lune et les divinités jumelles Cautes l'Aurore et Cautopates le Crépuscule Marbre face B d'un bas-relief romain IIe “IIIe siècles ap J -C H 62cm W 67 cm D 16 cm Travertine base H 10cm W 76cm D 50cm Museum Louvre Department of Greek Etruscan and Roman Antiquities Denon ground floor room 25 CIMRM 641 object history credit line Gift de Cumont-Offenbach 1939 accession number Ma 3441 MND 1911 Marie-Lan Nguyen 2007 other versions <gallery>Image Mithras tauroctony Louvre Ma3441 jpg Side A tauroctony</gallery> Mithras relief Louvre Ma 3441 from Fiano Romano | ||||
