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Monumentum

Tauroctony relief from Serdica

White marble tauroctony relief from Sofia, ancient Serdica in Thracia, found near the Church of St. Kral, depicting the standard bull-slaying with the full iconographic programme.
Tauroctony relief from SerdicaCIMRM
 
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
White marble relief (H. 0.53 Br. 0.52 D. 0.07), found at Sofia in an ancient substruction near the Church of St. Kral. Sofia, National Museum.Dobrusky in Sbornik. XVI, 1900, 37 No. 2 and fig. 16; MMM II 271f No. 123 and fig. 115; LeRoy Campbell in Berytus XI 1954, 51 No. 457. See fig. 643.The r. side and the l. upper corner of the relief are broken off. Mithras as a bullkiller with serpent and scorpion. The upper part of Mithras' body, the head of the bull, the r. torchbearer, the dog and the raven are lost. Cautopates' feet and the top of his torch are visible on a base…

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