Alabaster tauroctony fragment from Cologne

TNMM 1403 ↔ CIMRM 1019

Fragment of a relief in alabaster (H. 0.055 Br. 0.11 D. 0.02).

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.

Comments

Pattie L

Photo by the awesome Carole Raddato of Hollowing Hadrian.

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The New Mithraeum

Thank you! Carole is properly credited now.

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