Monumentum
Tauroctony relief fragment from Pula
A fragmentary limestone tauroctony relief found on the south slope of the Castellhügel at Pola (modern Pula) during the demolition of a wall, now in the Lapidary Museum at Pula, preserving the bull's body, the dog, the serpent, the scorpion and a standing cross-legged torchbearer.
The New Mithraeum
Updated on May 2026
TNMM 1224 ↔ CIMRM 755
Fragment of a limestone relief, found at Pola (modern Pula) on the south slope of the Castellhügel during the demolition of a wall. Pola, Mus. Lap.
Mithras as a bullkiller in the usual attitude; head, arms and cloak with the raven have got lost. Of the bull the head, the end of the tail and the right hind-leg are missing. The dog and the serpent with their heads near the wound; the scorpion at the testicles. Before the bull a standing torchbearer, cross-legged; the upper part of his body with the head and arms also got lost.
CIMRM II 755
A. Gnirs, Führer durch Pola, 68 fig. 35; Le Roy Campbell in Berytus XI, 1954, 46 No. 77.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
