Rock-cut tauroctony relief from Rožanec
Rock-cut tauroctony relief from Rožanec.
Jože Vrban
TNMM 1425 ↔ CIMRM 1482 & 1483
Relief (H. 1.65 Br. 1.25) carved in the west rock at a height of 1.70 above floor-level.
Mithras in the usual dress and attitude kills the bull in a grotto, which is indicated by an arched border. The serpent, the dog and the scorpion. In two side-panels the torchbearers Cautes (r) and Cautopates (l) above which the busts of Sol (l) and of Luna (r). Above the relief an inscription:
CIMRM 1483
D(eo) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / d(omino) P(ublius) P(ublii) Aelii Nepos et / Proculus et Firminus / pro salute sua suorumque.
l. 2: d(omino?) P are clearly visible in the photographs.
CIL III 3933
References
Mitt. Krain XI, 1856, 48 and fig.; Hitzinger in Mitt. Krain XIII, 1857, 11ff.; Costa in MCC II, 1857, 301f.; von Premerstein in AEMO XIV, 1890, 97; MMM II 334 No. 232; AIJ I, 221 No. 485 and fig.; Schmid in Schild von Steier I, 1945, fig. 9. CIL III 3933; S. 10818; cf. MMM II No. 313.
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
