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Tauroctony fragment from Salona

Limestone tauroctony relief fragment from Salona, Dalmatia, preserving the foremost part of the bull, the dog, the serpent, and part of Mithras's dagger hand.
Tauroctony fragment from Salona

Tauroctony fragment from Salona
CIMRM

 
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026

TNMM 1815 ↔ CIMRM 1862

Fragment of a relief in limestone (H. 0.26 Br. 0.18 D. 0.09) found at Salona. Split, Archaeological Museum. Inv. No. 202D.

Bulić in BASD 1912, 57 and Pl. VI, 1; Grabičević in AJ I 1954, 37 No. 4. See fig. 478.

Mithras as a bullkiller. Preserved: the foremost part of the bull without the head; the dog, a part of the serpent with the head near the wound.

In the bottom rim an inscription:

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