Un nouveau relief de Mithra tauroctone

A relief entered as hitherto unpublished, appearing on the art market in 2000, shows the god Mithra tauroctone. Starting from an iconographic norm born of the reduplication of particular themes, variants exist in the representation of the ritual sacrifice. The New York relief reproduces the most cur...

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Main Author: Philippe Roy
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Presses universitaires du Midi 2013-01-01
Series:Pallas
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/pallas/541
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description A relief entered as hitherto unpublished, appearing on the art market in 2000, shows the god Mithra tauroctone. Starting from an iconographic norm born of the reduplication of particular themes, variants exist in the representation of the ritual sacrifice. The New York relief reproduces the most current composition but one must ponder the absence of Cautès and Sol. The question at issue is to determine whether the relief was severed from a wider ensemble or whether it is a local adaptation to the norm which may come from a provincial community remote from the major cultural centres or come from a workshop unfamiliar with the mithraic imagery, which was presumably the case with the IInd and IIIrd century provincial workshops. The construction is not by the way that of a Roman workshop.
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spelling doaj.art-591c6e20d7de4b9cafdc1ef0788ae00c2023-02-09T16:32:29ZfraPresses universitaires du MidiPallas0031-03872272-76392013-01-0190637410.4000/pallas.541Un nouveau relief de Mithra tauroctonePhilippe RoyA relief entered as hitherto unpublished, appearing on the art market in 2000, shows the god Mithra tauroctone. Starting from an iconographic norm born of the reduplication of particular themes, variants exist in the representation of the ritual sacrifice. The New York relief reproduces the most current composition but one must ponder the absence of Cautès and Sol. The question at issue is to determine whether the relief was severed from a wider ensemble or whether it is a local adaptation to the norm which may come from a provincial community remote from the major cultural centres or come from a workshop unfamiliar with the mithraic imagery, which was presumably the case with the IInd and IIIrd century provincial workshops. The construction is not by the way that of a Roman workshop.http://journals.openedition.org/pallas/541MithratauroctonyPhrygian capdadophorebullzodiac
spellingShingle Philippe Roy
Un nouveau relief de Mithra tauroctone
Pallas
Mithra
tauroctony
Phrygian cap
dadophore
bull
zodiac
title Un nouveau relief de Mithra tauroctone
title_full Un nouveau relief de Mithra tauroctone
title_fullStr Un nouveau relief de Mithra tauroctone
title_full_unstemmed Un nouveau relief de Mithra tauroctone
title_short Un nouveau relief de Mithra tauroctone
title_sort un nouveau relief de mithra tauroctone
topic Mithra
tauroctony
Phrygian cap
dadophore
bull
zodiac
url http://journals.openedition.org/pallas/541
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