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Monumentum

Red pottery fragments with bull and lion from Trier

Two red pottery fragments from a plate found near the Schützenstrasse at Augusta Treverorum (modern Trier) in Belgica, showing the forepart of a horned bull and the hindquarters of a lion, possibly Mithraic in character.
 
The New Mithraeum
Updated on May 2026
Two fragments of red pottery from a plate (diam. 0.22), found near the Schützenstrasse at Augusta Treverorum (modern Trier), Belgica. On the larger fragment, the foremost part of a horned bull; on the other, the rear-quarter of a lion. A Mithraic attribution is possible.

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