Monumentum
Tauroctony relief corner from Budapest
Right upper corner of a white marble tauroctony relief from Budapest, ancient Aquincum or its vicinity, in the National Museum since 1868, preserving part of the grotto border and divine busts.
Tauroctony relief corner from BudapestCIMRM
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
TNMM 1790 ↔ CIMRM 1796
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.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
