Category:Mithraic tauroctony Louvre AO22256

**Mithraic tauroctony Louvre AO22256**
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Instance of	sculpture;
Depicts	Mitra and Tauroctony
Made from material	marble;
Location	Room 181, Denon Wing, Louvre Palace, 1st arrondissement of Paris, Paris Centre, Paris, Grand Paris
Location of discovery	Sidon Mithraeum (19th century);
Owned by	French State;
Collection	Department of Near Eastern Antiquities of the Louvre;
Inventory number	AO 22256 (Department of Near Eastern Antiquities of the Louvre);
Inception	389;
Width	88.5 cm;
Length	88.5 cm;
Height	74.5 cm;
Horizontal depth	27 cm;
Authority file
	Q112288036; Louvre Museum ARK ID: 010120306
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Mithraic tauroctony Louvre AO22256

Title

Mithraic tauroctony Louvre AO22256

Object type

sculpture

Description

Tauroctony: Mithras slaying the bull.

Date

389

Medium

white marble

Dimensions

height: 72 cm (28.3 in); width: 89 cm (35 in); depth: 23 cm (9 in)

Collection

Louvre Museum (Inventory)

	Native name	Louvre Museum
	Location	1st arrondissement of Paris , France
	Coordinates	48° 51′ 40″ N, 2° 20′ 09″ E
	Established	10 August 1793
	Website	www.louvre.fr
	Authority file	: Q19675 VIAF: 257711507 ISNI: 000000012260177X ULAN: 500125189 LCCN: n80020283 NLA: 35912436 WorldCat

Current location

Orient méditerranéen dans l'empire romain, room 3a: Art funéraire du Proche-Orient. Denon, Entresol.
This work is part of the collections of the Louvre (Department of Near Eastern Antiquities).

Accession number

AO 22256

Place of discovery

Sidon Mithraeum

Object history

1887: discovered by Edmond Durighello (Sidon)
collection of Louis Péretié
collection of Louis de Clercq
1967: given by Henri de Boisgelin

Exhibition history

Le Mystère Mithra (Toulouse), Musée Saint-Raymond, 14 May 2022 -

Inscriptions

[[I,] Fl. Gerontios, pater nominos of the rites of initiation of the god, in thanks I have consecrated [this statue] in the year 500. (The "year 500" is uncertain. If it is the 500th year of the Seleucid Era (AS), then 500 AS = 188 A.D. If it is following a local Sidon year-table, it is 398 A.D.1)]

References

Musée du Louvre, Atlas database: entry 37407

Authority file

: Q112288036
Louvre: 010120306

Media in category "Mithraic tauroctony Louvre AO22256"

The following 12 files are in this category, out of 12 total.

Mithraic tauroctony Louvre AO22256 n01.jpg 2,933 × 2,640; 4.26 MB
Mithraic tauroctony Louvre AO22256 n02.jpg 2,621 × 3,946; 6.2 MB
Mithraic tauroctony Louvre AO22256 n03.jpg 4,922 × 3,282; 5.14 MB
Mithraic tauroctony Louvre AO22256 n04.jpg 5,114 × 3,409; 5.8 MB
Mithraic tauroctony Louvre AO22256 n05.jpg 5,184 × 3,456; 6.81 MB
Mithraic tauroctony Louvre AO22256 n06.jpg 3,456 × 5,184; 7.6 MB
Mithraic tauroctony Louvre AO22256 n07.jpg 5,184 × 2,916; 5.98 MB
Mithraic tauroctony Louvre AO22256 n08.jpg 4,320 × 3,456; 5.74 MB
Siria, sculture del mitreo di sidon, 389 dc, mitra tauroctono 01.JPG 2,085 × 2,052; 2.55 MB
Siria, sculture del mitreo di sidon, 389 dc, mitra tauroctono 02 serpente e scorpione.JPG 3,456 × 2,043; 3.39 MB
Statutory group depicting the cult of Mithras, Mithras slaying the bull accompagnied by his two torchbeares Cautopates (left) and Cautes (right), from the Mithraeum at Sidon (Colonia Aurelia Pia, Syria), Louvre Museum (9365068428).jpg 4,255 × 3,149; 8.84 MB
Tauroctony statuette of Parian marble depicting Mithras in Eastern attire, girded with a sheath, killing with a large dagger the bull, from the Mithraeum at Sidon (Colonia Aurelia Pia, Syria), Louvre Museum (9365095834).jpg 3,973 × 3,149; 9.49 MB

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