Monumentum
Tauroctony relief with pensive Cautopates from Ruše
Marble tauroctony relief from Ruše, Noricum, showing a grotto scene in which Cautopates holds the torch downward against the rocky ground and supports his head with his left hand in a pensive attitude; the upper left corner preserves a bust of Sol.
Tauroctony relief with pensive Cautopates from RušeCIMRM
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
TNMM 1582 ↔ CIMRM 1451
Marble relief (H. 0.46 Br. 0.49 D. 0.04). Graz, Joanneum Inv. No. 109. See fig. 370.
Skrabar in Časopis XVII, 1922, 17; Hoffiler-Saria, AIJ I, 50 No. 117.
Mithras as a bullkiller in a grotto. Only the dog and the scorpion are visible. Cautopates is holding the torch downwards against the rocky ground; he supports his head with his l.h. In the l. upper corner the bust of Sol. The head of the bull, Luna and the greater part of Cautes (r) are broken off.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
