Monumentum
Tauroctony lower panel from Mithraeum II, Ptuj
Marble relief from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, preserving the lower part of the tauroctony with a bull in full extension, the scorpion, and a serpent with upraised head, together with Cautopates behind the bull.
Tauroctony lower panel from Mithraeum II, PtujCIMRM
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
TNMM 1631 ↔ CIMRM 1542
Marble relief, the right part of which is lost (Inv. No. 159).
Abramić, 73 No. 69. See fig. 393.
Lower part of the representation of Mithras as a bullkiller. The bull is stretched out in full length. Scorpion; serpent with upraised head. Behind the bull Cautopates, only preserved from the middle, with torch downwards. In the bottom rim an inscription:
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
