Mithras
- Title
- Mithras
- Repository
- British Museum
- Alternative
- Statue Sculpture 1720
- Creator
- unknown
- Photographer
- Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
- unknown Ancient Roman(artist)
- Description
- Marble statue of Mithras slaying the bull. Mithras is shown in eastern costume, including trousers and a Phrygian cap. A dog and snake are shown trying to lick the blood and a scorpion is attacking the bull's genitals. --The British Museum Pryce, F N; Smith, A H, Catalogue of Greek Sculpture in the British Museum, I-III, London, BMP, 1892
- View
- Front
- Coverage
- Rome, Lazio, Italy (discovery)
- Temporal
- 2nd century CE
- Subject
- Italian Byzantine Pottery VII Roman
- Style Period
- Imperial (Roman)
- Work Type
- statues
- Date
- 0100/0200
- View Date
- 1985-09
- Identifier
- Lowenstam_VRC_07017
- Item Locator
- Box 16, Section 14
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- University of Oregon, Department of Classics
- Local Collection Name
- Steven Lowenstam Collection
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Measurements
- Height: 1.29 m Length: 1.44 m
- Material
- marble
- Set
- Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Primary Set
- Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Institution
- University of Oregon
- Cultural Context
- Roman (ancient Italian culture or period)
- Id Current Repository
- 1825,0613.1
