Monumentum
Tauroctony relief from Aïtodor
Fragmentary tauroctony preserving Mithras, the torchbearers, Sol and Luna from the sanctuary at Aïtodor.
The New Mithraeum
26 May 2026
TNMM 1440 ↔ CIMRM 10A
Four fragments of a marble relief (H. 0.16 Br. 0.20 D. 0.023).
The central section of the relief is lost, but parts of the heads of Mithras and of the bull are preserved. The upper part of Cautes (r) with upraised torch, Cautopates (l) standing cross-legged and his r. h. with the torch downwards. Parts of the head and body are missing. Hoof of the r. hind-foot and parts of the forefeet of the bull. Above the grotto’s border there are the busts of Sol (l) and of Luna (r). Luna seems to be holding a torch. Between them a row of (originally seven) altars.
References
E. H. Minns, Scythians and Greeks. Cambridge 1913, 523; 546; IIKA XL, 1911, 15 No. 6 and Pl. IV, 7; Berytus XI, 1954, 52 No. 628, who wrongly lists it as from Nymphaeum. See fig. 239.
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
