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Monumentum

Tauroctony III from Memphis

Primitive limestone tauroctony relief from the Mithraeum of Memphis, preserving a simplified representation of Mithras slaying the bull.
 
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2007
Updated on Jul 2026
Relief in limestone (H. 0.85 Br. 0.70). Inv. No. 7260.
The badly preserved and primitive relief represents Mithras in Eastern attire as a bull-killer. The dog, snake and scorpion are present; the raven is no longer visible. In the upper corners the busts of Sol and Luna had presumably been represented.
MMM II No. 285c and fig. 480.

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