Cast Gallery catalogue number: H022

Relief showing Mithras and bull.

• Plaster cast: Height: 44 cm, Width: 56 cm.
• Copy of a white sandstone relief.
• The relief:
  • was found in Walbrook, England, in 1889.
  • was formerly in Hitchin, collection of Mr W. Ransom.
  • is now in London.

Detailed Record

Commentary Prepared by Dr. Julia Lenaghan, Ashmolean Museum

H 022
Mithras and the Bull. Hitchin

White Sandstone
Relief
17 in high, 21 in wide
United Kingdom, Hitchin (London), Ransom's Collection
Antonine

Bibliography:
F. Haverfield and H. Stuart Jones, "Some Representative Examples of Roman-British Sculpture" (JRS 2 1912) pp.142-144 no.10 fig.14