Monumentum
Marble relief fragments of Mithras tauroktonos from the Caracalla Mithraeum, Rome
Fragments of a marble relief of Mithras as bull-killer from the Caracalla Mithraeum, preserving the knee of the bull's right hind-leg, the bent knee of Mithras, and parts of the serpent, dog, cock and a bust in a tunic.
The New Mithraeum
Updated on May 2026
Marble relief of Mithras as a bull-killer. Only fragments have been preserved: a.o. the knee of the bull's r. hind-leg; bent knee of Mithras; parts of a serpent, dog, cock and of a bust, dressed in a tunic. The relief should have been in the back-wall (Ghislanzoni, 322).
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