Monumentum
Tauroctony relief with torchbearers from Settignano, near Florence
A rectangular marble tauroctony relief found in Etruria, once in the Villa Martin at Settignano near Florence, showing Mithras slaying the bull with Cautes and Cautopates in Eastern attire cross-legged on either side and the busts of Sol and Luna in the upper corners; now in the Archäologisches Museum, Florence.
The New Mithraeum
Updated on May 2026
TNMM 1161 ↔ CIMRM 668
Rectangular marble relief, at first in the Coll. Villa Martin at Settignano, now in the Archäologisches Museum, Florence. Found in Etruria.
Mithras in Eastern attire slaying the bull, whose tail ends in three ears and whose body is surrounded by a large band. The god looks back at the raven. Dog and serpent lick the blood from the wound; the scorpion on the usual place. On either side a torchbearer: Cautes on the left and Cautopates on the right, both in Eastern attire and cross-legged. In the upper corners the busts of Sol on the left and of Luna in a crescent on the right.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
