Monumentum
Bordered tauroctony relief from Salona
Right upper corner of a white marble bordered tauroctony relief from Salona or its surroundings, Dalmatia, with framing elements and part of the bull-slaying iconography.
Bordered tauroctony relief from SalonaCIMRM
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
TNMM 1822 ↔ CIMRM 1869
R. upper corner of a relief in white marble (H. 0.30 Br. 0.23 D. 0.17). The exact place of discovery is not known; probably from Salona or its surroundings. Split, Archaeological Museum.
Grabičević in AJ I 1954, 38f No. 27 and fig. 10. See fig. 484.
The relief is bordered. In the r. upper corner the dressed bust of Luna with a diadem in her hair and with a crescent behind her shoulders. The face is damaged. Underneath Luna the head and the dressed shoulder of a person, who does not wear a Phrygian cap (Cautes).
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
