Monumentum
Tauroctony relief fragment from San Zeno am Nonsberg, Trentino
A coarse-grained yellowish-white marble tauroctony relief fragment found walled in at San Zeno am Nonsberg in the Trentino in 1911, now in the Museum Ferdinandeum at Innsbruck, showing part of Mithras slaying the bull and Cautes raising a flaming torch.
The New Mithraeum
Updated on May 2026
TNMM 1200 ↔ CIMRM 725
Fragment of coarse-grained yellowish-white marble, found in 1911 at S. Zeno am Nonsberg where it had been walled in. Now in the Museum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck.
Of the primitive relief only a part of Mithras slaying the bull with his dagger has been preserved. The heads of the serpent and the dog near the wound. Before this scene Cautes, raising with both hands the flaming torch; not cross-legged.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
