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Figure A

Bas relief of Mithra.
TYPICAL REPRESENTATION OF MITHRA
(Famous Borghesi bas-relief in white marble,
now in the Louvre, Paris, but originally taken from the mithraeum of the Capitol.)
 

Mithra is sacrificing the bull in the cave. The characterisitic features of the Mithra monuments are all represented here: the youths with the upright and the inverted torch, the snake, the dog, the raven, Helios, the god of the sun, and Selene, the goddess of the moon. Owing to the Phrygian cap, the resemblance of the face to that of Alwxander, and the imitation of the motif of the classical Greek group of Nike sacrificing a bull,...all characteristics of the Diadochian epoch,...the original of all the works of this type has been attributed to an artist of Pergamon.
 

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