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Monumentum

Tauroctony relief from Friedberg

Large quartzite tauroctony relief with torchbearers, zodiacal imagery and traces of ancient red paint from the Friedberg Mithraeum.
 
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
Relief in quartzite (H. 1.15 Br. 1.87 D. 0.04) in three fragments. Found in the centre of the sanctuary. Townhall at Friedberg.Goldmann in AHGA, 295 and Pl. I, 1; MMM II 356 No. 248b and fig. 228; Esp. Rec. Germ., 57 No. 83; Le Roy Campbell in Berytus XI, 1954, 49 No. 188.The relief made in sandstone from Naumberg is badly weathered. Mithras kills the bull whose tail ends in three corn-ears. Dog, serpent and scorpion. Cautes (r) and Cautopates (l) cross-legged. Behind the bull's tail there is a bearded head which is turned to Mithras. One fragment shows the upper part of the head of Luna in crescent;…

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