Mithras bust fragment from Biljanovac

The New Mithraeum

27 May 2026

TNMM 2060 ↔ CIMRM 2203

Fragment in white limestone (H. 0.60 Br. 0.10).

Vulić in RA (S. 6) I, 1933, 183 and fig. 2; Kokić in BSSS 1933, 9 and fig. 10; Bulic in Spomenik LXXVII, 60, 1934, 65 No. 3 and fig.

The upper part of Mithras who is represented as a bullkiller. The tunic has no sleeves. The bull, Mithras' flying cloak, both hands and the lower part of his figure are lost.

References

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

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