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
TNMM 1368 ↔ CIMRM 996
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.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
