CIMRM 2367 - Gold ring with Tauroctony. Walters Art Museum, USA


Medium=sard, gold mount. Dimensions=2.2 × 2.3 × 0.8 cm (0.9 × 0.9 × 0.3 in). Accession no=42.1342. Museum purchase, 1942. Place of origin=Nemea (?) (in present-day Greece). Labelled by museum as "Intaglio of a Mithraic Sacrifice" where it is given the date of "late 1st century BC (Augustan)". Walters Museum page1

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1The date seems unlikely - see my discussion here.

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