Bas-relief

Lucciana [20] musée de site archéologique de Mariana, Prince Rainier III de Monaco

© Pascal Druelle / Ville de Lucciana

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An incomplete marble plaque was broken into three pieces and burned, probably by the first Christians on the site. It depicts the taurobolus of Mithra following his iconographic codes. Despite the damage, this sculpture reveals the lower part of the scene of the sacrifice of the bull and in particular the sword piercing the neck of the animal and the hindquarters of the dog biting it. An inscription placed in a band below the relief reads partially:
[MARIN]... POSVIT translated as "Marinus has posed". This mention and the small size of the bas-relief could also be interpreted as an ex-voto offered by a certain Marinus without necessarily being the scene associated with the main altar of the sanctuary.

Where to find it

Lucciana [20] musée de site archéologique de Mariana, Prince Rainier III de Monaco
10 Strada di u Granelese
Lieu-dit Canonica
20290 Lucciana

Commune of discovery

Locality

Canonica

Type of intervention

Excavation

Year of excavation

2017

Chief Scientist

CHAPON, Philippe

Inventory number

2019.1.10

Scope

Architecture ➔ Low relief
Religion

Materials

Mineral ➔ lapidary ➔ Marble

Chronological period

Gallo-Roman [- 50 / 476] ➔ Early Imperial [27 / 235]

Dating the object

101 – 200

Dimensions

H. 18 cm, L. 48 cm, l. 7.2 cm,

Operation report notice

Consult the notice

Bibliographie

O. de Peretti, Un sanctuaire dédié à Mithra dans la colonie romaine de Mariana (Lucciana, Haute-Corse), in " Le mystère Mithra. Plongée au cœur d'un culte romain", catalogue d'exposition