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Monumentum

CIMRM 1019

Fragment of an alabaster relief from Cologne with part of a tauroctony scene. Only the tip of Mithras’ Phrygian cap and small narrative details above are preserved.
Fragment of a relief in alabaster with tauroctony from Cologne.

Fragment of a relief in alabaster with tauroctony from Cologne.
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The New Mithraeum
27 Feb 2026
Fragment of a relief in alabaster (H. 0.055 Br. 0.11 D. 0.02).Fremersdorf, 56 and fig. 2. See fig. 264.Part of the upper border of a relief with the representation of Mithras as a bull-killer. Only the point of the Phrygian cap is preserved. Over it from l. to r.:1) Part of a rocky border, probably part of the scene with the water miracle.2) Bull in a small boat above a row of four altars.3) The foremost part of the bull in a vaulted grotto.4) Mithras lifts up the bull in order to carry him away.

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