Monumentum
Zodiacal tauroctony relief from Friedberg
Small marble relief of Mithras slaying the bull within a wreath decorated with zodiac signs.
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
TNMM 1473 ↔ CIMRM 1054
Fragment of a small marble relief (H. 0.08 Br. 0.07 D. 0.03), found in the N-W corner of the sanctuary. Museum Darmstadt.
Goldmann in AHGA, 293 and Pl. I, 12; Wolff in KGV 1882 No. 11; MMM II 356f No. 248c and fig. 232; Esp. Rec. Germ., 59 No. 88.
Mithras as a bullkiller in a wreath of leaves. Preserved: the god's head and the upper part of his body, the bull's head and shoulder. In the arched grotto border there are four signs of the zodiac, from l. to r.: bull-twins-crab-lion's head. Traces of red painting.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
