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.
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.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae