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Monumentum

Fragments of Mithraic reliefs from Poetovio II

These six marble fragments from the Second Mithraeum of Poetovio preserve parts of tauroctonies together with figures of Sol, Cautes, and Cautopates.
 
The New Mithraeum
15 May 2026
Six marble fragments discovered in 1901 in the Second Mithraeum of Poetovio. The surviving pieces include the knee of Mithras and a serpent beneath the bull from a tauroctony relief, as well as fragments showing the bust of Sol, Cautes, Cautopates, and the central section of a bull-slaying scene.

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