Italy, Rome, Terme di Diocleziano, Diocletian Baths, Museo Nazionale Romano, National Roman Museum, marble bas relief of Mithras (3rd century AD)

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Italy, Rome, Terme di Diocleziano, Diocletian Baths, Museo Nazionale Romano, National Roman Museum, marble bas relief of Mithras (3rd century AD), from the Mithraeum of the Castra Peregrinorum in the Basilica of Santo Stefano Rotondo, the marble relief, with substantial remains of the original colour and gilding, shows a tauroctonia, the slaughtering of the bull by the god Mithras

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Size: 4256px × 2832px
Location: Diocletian Baths, Museo Nazionale Romano, National Roman Museum, Rome, Italy, Europe
Photo credit: © Vito Arcomano / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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