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Tauroctony relief with raven from Mithraeum II, Ptuj

White marble tauroctony relief from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, depicting Mithras in Oriental dress killing the bull with a girdle and the raven perched on the grotto's border.
Tauroctony relief with raven from Mithraeum II, PtujCIMRM
 
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
White marble relief (H. 0.38 Br. 0.45 D. 0.04). Inv. No. 154.Abramić in Jahrb. f. Alterk., 1913 Taf. XXIV, 3; Abramić, Führer, 76 No. 72 and fig. 17; AIJ I, 141 No. 301 and fig. See fig. 388.Mithras in Oriental dress as a bullkiller. He wears a girdle around his tunic. On the grotto's border is the raven. The dog near the wound; the serpent creeping over the ground; the scorpion is not clearly visible. Behind the bull Cautopates is standing cross-legged with the torch downwards. He holds in his l.h. an oblong, thin, arched object (sling?). Cautes (r) is not cross-legged and holds the torch upwards…

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