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Monumentum

Bull's head fragment from Salona

Limestone relief fragment from Salona or its surroundings, Dalmatia, preserving a very fine bull's head and the left hand of Mithras.
Bull's head fragment from SalonaCIMRM
 
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026

TNMM 1821 ↔ CIMRM 1868

Fragment of a relief in limestone (H. 0.16 Br. 0.20). The exact place of discovery is not known; probably from Salona or its surroundings. Split, Archaeological Museum.

Grabičević in AJ I 1954, 38 No. 26 and fig. 9. See fig. 483.

Very beautiful head of the bull and the l.h. of Mithras grasping its muzzle.

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