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Tauroctony relief fragment from Aquincum

Fragment of a relief from Aquincum, Pannonia Inferior, walled into a house at Majláth-Utcai 51, preserving the lower left corner of a tauroctony with the bull's hind-leg, Mithras's leg, and the scorpion.
 
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27 May 2026
Fragment of a relief, measurements unknown. Walled in in the house Majláth-Utcai 51. Budapest, National Museum.Szilágyi in BpR XIII, 1943, 344ff, 531 and fig. 13. See fig. 465.The l. bottom corner of a relief with Mithras as a bullkiller. The r. hindleg of the bull and the r. leg of Mithras; the scorpion and the serpent. Behind Mithras is Cautopates standing on a base not cross-legged. He holds the torch downwards. Only the lower part is preserved.I do not know if this relief corresponds with the one mentioned in BpTört. II, 434, found in the Castra: Miklós-Utca 24.

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