Monumentum
Bull relief fragment from Aquileia
Fragmentary marble relief with the hind legs of a bull once interpreted as Mithraic but considered doubtful by Vermaseren.
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
TNMM 2048 ↔ CIMRM 753bis
G. Brusin, Gli scavi di Aquileia. Udine 1934, 114f and fig. 68 (followed by T. Nagy in AErt 85, 1958, 110) considers a fragment of a marble relief as Mithraic. There are two hindfeet of a standing bull and behind it the 'r. foot of a figure with a piece of a burning torch turned downwards.' I do not see the foot of the torch-bearer.
The representation seems too doubtful to be considered as Mithraic. Second century A.D.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
